Re: MMR: excessive clock skew

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Gary Windham wrote:
> Sorry for not replying to the original thread, but I just joined this 
> list.
>
> On Tue, 13 May 2008, Rich Megginson wrote:
>
> > Has anyone seen these errors with 1.1?  We fixed a few 64-bit issues 
> in 1.1.
>
> I am running two 32-bit FDS 1.1 (fedora-ds-1.1.0-3.fc6) servers, on 
> RHEL 5.1, in an MMR configuration.  These servers, which are 
> configured behind a load balancer, act as the University's central 
> authentication service.  We have are using the password policy plugin 
> and have the "passwordisglobalpolicy" setting enabled, so there is a 
> substantial amount of write activity due to replication of 
> password-policy-related attributes (e.g., passwordRetryCount, 
> retryCountResetTime, etc).  Time on both systems is synchronized via 
> NTP; clocks are in sync.
>
> We have the same situation as Reinhard Nappert reported on 5/13/2008: 
> MMR will work fine for a while (usually a few weeks; the longest 
> period we've gone is a month, the shortest time a few hours).  
> Eventually replication will fail with the following sequence of 
> messages in the errors log:
>
> [24/May/2008:05:18:54 -0700] - csngen_adjust_time: adjustment limit 
> exceeded; value - 86401, limit - 86400
> [24/May/2008:05:18:54 -0700] NSMMReplicationPlugin - conn=1800 
> op=60262 replica="<suffix>": Unable to acquire replica: error: 
> excessive clock skew
> [24/May/2008:05:20:05 -0700] - csngen_adjust_time: adjustment limit 
> exceeded; value - 86401, limit - 86400
> [24/May/2008:05:20:05 -0700] NSMMReplicationPlugin - 
> agmt="cn=kif2zapp" (zapp:389): Incremental protocol: fatal er
> ror - too much time skew between replicas!
> [24/May/2008:05:20:05 -0700] NSMMReplicationPlugin - 
> agmt="cn=kif2zapp" (zapp:389): Incremental update failed and
> requires administrator action
>
> The "csngen_adjust_time" error message always reports the same value 
> when this occurs (86401).
>
> We have also employed the workaround described by Chris St. Pierre in 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=233642#c3.  This resolves 
> the problem for a short while, but it always reappears.  BTW, I was in 
> contact with Chris recently about his experiences with MMR and he said 
> that, in addition to moving to FDS 1.1, he moved a lot of "frequently 
> updated" data out of FDS and into MySQL, and that his problem 
> disappeared afterward; obviously this isn't a solution for us as we 
> are utilizing FDS as an authentication engine.
>
> We are desperately trying to find a solution to this issue that will 
> allow us to continue using MMR...we could resort to a traditional 
> passive/active + shared storage HA design, but we want to keep that as 
> a last resort.  If there is any additional information I should 
> provide, please let me know.
I've attached a script to 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=233642 to help diagnose this 
problem.
>
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> Gary Windham
> Senior Enterprise Systems Architect
> The University of Arizona, UITS
> +1 520 626 5981
>
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