On 22 August 2012 20:13, Michael Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > I have two servers running CouchDB in a multi-master setup, where each > is performing a continuous pull replication on the other. I stupidly > assumed that both servers had their system time set appropriately with > ntpd, but I was wrong, and they're both off by a minute or two. Will > running ntpd on each server affect CouchDB or the replication at all? > Should I play it safe and stop replication, down CouchDB, change the > clock, and then up CouchDB and start replication again?
I think you can change the clock quite safely. The erlang runtime will likely emit some warnings, but with a delta < 5 minutes this should not cause it to restart[1]. With this short a time difference, I'd not get ntpd to forcefully update, but let it drift onto the corrected time. This will no doubt be platform dependent. A+ Dave [1]:http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/heart.html
