Hi Frank, smokeping itself does not care about jumping real time clocks ... but I guess fping which does the pingin in the default smokeping setup could be rather unhappy about packets ariving with such huge jitter ... 200ms is a hell of a lot of time ...
cheers tobi Today Frank Wegner wrote: > Hi smokeping Experts, > > > > I like to know if you ever tried running smokeping inside a VMware virtual > machine (Debian Linux guest OS). > > > > The effect I see is that when running smokeping on a physical box the network > is fine, but when running smokeping from inside a virtual machine a lot of > packets appear to be dropped. However, the network applications itself all > seem to be fine. > > > > My guess is that maybe smokeping is very time sensitive. The virtual machine > clock has time jumps and irregularities in the millisecond range (up to 200 > ms). So how well does smokeping cope with a system clock which does not > constantly show the correct time? Could this explain that some packets appear > as dropped (they could just have arrived at unexpected times)? > > > > Thanks a lot in advance, > > F > > > > Best Regards. > > Frank Wegner > http://www.vmware.com <http://www.vmware.com> > > VMware Global Inc., Branch Office Germany > > Place: Unterschleissheim, Freisinger Str. 3, County Court Munich HRB 149743 > > President: Diane Greene > > > > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten http://it.oetiker.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++41 62 213 9902 _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
