On 08/17/2010 11:53 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> so, why has it just happened recently. I do know about ntp and ntpdate, >> but since I don't need exact time all the time, the occasional ntpdate >> has always been fine. >> > All workstations I've ever used back when I was a student had an ntpd > running, as a matter of course. > Nowadays, I have it running on my cell-phone, my home routers, ... > Why someone wouldn't want to run it on a machine that runs several VMs > is beyond me. > > This said, 20 minutes over the weekend is *a lot*, so it may be due to > a real problem, and ntpd may not be able to adjust for it (it's not > designed for such big discrepancies). > > > Stefan > Never really had much of a problem, but it is kind of strange it is not installed on ubuntu by default (nor on debian stable afaics). Back in gentoo days it was one of the first things I would install, logger, dhcp, cron, and ntp.
It was an hour over the weekend, which is what surprised me. 20 minutes or so just from 9PM last night to 9AM this morning. The VMs are mostly idling as well, only one working "hard" doing remote rsync backups (backuppc), and that is hard i/o, not CPU. Jeremy _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
