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This literally just happened to a VPS of mine. Time was jumping forwards and back, every second the time could jump an hour ahead and back. Everything screwed u
by wladimir 15y ago
This literally just happened to a VPS of mine. Time was jumping forwards and back, every second the time could jump an hour ahead and back. Everything screwed up, from log rotation to sessions.
My first thought was that this was some kind of prank :-) but seems it was a hardware issue on the parent machine combined with ntpd trying to compensate.
- jen_h 15y agoThis one was a blast back in the day: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006113 http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?langua... No need to run the test case, you'd run into it soon enough on a 2.6 kernel on VMWare. ;)
- justincormack 15y agoYou should read this article (also applies to other VMs) http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/Timekeeping-In-VirtualMachines.pdf http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/Timekeeping-In-VirtualMachin... There are a lot of issues that can happen because of this...