Hi, 2013/6/18 <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > Just a little addendum on 'catchups' that we were experiencing (and > finally solved): > > Our IP uses FreeBSD servers, and our particular server has massive > resources, > lots of CPU power, 2.5 GB RAM, and abundant Bandwidth - 5 TB. So, tracking > down these > devils was a real nightmare. > > What gave use the clue to our problem was the slight differences in actual > time that > the server displayed. We noticed that it slowly began to drift from a few > ms to a few minutes. When we finally > looked into it, we found that FreeBSD resyncs server-time from an external > source using ntpd. > > Essentially, the server OS had to be re-compiled properly to allow users > to update for time-drift. > > Once this issue was attended to, the catchups have all but disappeared -- > finally. > > A rather obtuse problem/solution. However, it might be worth checking for > actual time-drift, and eliminating that posibility since this will affect > liquidsoap performance. > > Hope this might help someone out there in LS Land :)
Thanks for the feedback and the investigation. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "allow users to update for time-drift" tho.. Romain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Savonet-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users
