Re: [Dovecot] Time moved backwards by 4398 seconds

2008-07-09 Thread Anders
Bill Cole wrote: > You might even be better off configuring your system to not use the > TSC as a clock source. There's a strong chance that you won't really > be sacrificing anything that you actually use. Time to conclude on this. Rather than going along with my Dovecot hack, I went and change

Re: [Dovecot] Time moved backwards by 4398 seconds

2008-06-20 Thread Anders
Bill Cole wrote: > At 11:10 AM +0200 6/20/08, Anders wrote: >>By that line, the entire "time moved backwards" thing does not belong >>in Dovecot. > > I suspect that you don't understand why that is in Dovecot. Timo has > explained it in detail a few times, but the bottom line is simple: > running

Re: [Dovecot] Time moved backwards by 4398 seconds

2008-06-20 Thread Bill Cole
At 11:10 AM +0200 6/20/08, Anders wrote: Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 10:53 +0200, Anders wrote: I was puzzled that it was always 4398 seconds, in particular because this server runs an NTP daemon. A little searching for this problem shows that it is an

Re: [Dovecot] Time moved backwards by 4398 seconds

2008-06-20 Thread Johannes Berg
> This bug causes Dovecot to run the IO loop in the future for one > iteration, and then die when we get back to present time. > > By the time Dovecot dies, some damage could already have happend, for > example if ioloop_time is stored to permanent storage. Hmm, ok, I was under the impression

Re: [Dovecot] Time moved backwards by 4398 seconds

2008-06-20 Thread Anders
Johannes Berg wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 11:10 +0200, Anders wrote: Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 10:53 +0200, Anders wrote: I was puzzled that it was always 4398 seconds, in particular because this server runs an NTP daemon. A little searching for this pro

Re: [Dovecot] Time moved backwards by 4398 seconds

2008-06-20 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 11:10 +0200, Anders wrote: > Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 10:53 +0200, Anders wrote: > >> > >> I was puzzled that it was always 4398 seconds, in particular because > >> this server runs an NTP daemon. A little searching for this proble

Re: [Dovecot] Time moved backwards by 4398 seconds

2008-06-20 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 10:53 +0200, Anders wrote: > Dovecot (v1.1.rc8) died tonight, with an error about time moving > backwards by 4398 seconds. I can see from logs that this has happend a > few times before with the imap processes, without me noticing. I sure > noticed the master process missing,

Re: [Dovecot] Time moved backwards by 4398 seconds

2008-06-20 Thread Anders
Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 10:53 +0200, Anders wrote: >> >> I was puzzled that it was always 4398 seconds, in particular because >> this server runs an NTP daemon. A little searching for this problem >> shows that it is an issue with the Linux kernel gettimeo

Re: [Dovecot] Time moved backwards by 4398 seconds

2008-06-20 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 10:53 +0200, Anders wrote: > Dovecot (v1.1.rc8) died tonight, with an error about time moving > backwards by 4398 seconds. I can see from logs that this has happend a > few times before with the imap processes, without me noticing. I sure > noticed the master process missing,

[Dovecot] Time moved backwards by 4398 seconds

2008-06-20 Thread Anders
Dovecot (v1.1.rc8) died tonight, with an error about time moving backwards by 4398 seconds. I can see from logs that this has happend a few times before with the imap processes, without me noticing. I sure noticed the master process missing, though :-). I was puzzled that it was always 4398 second