Re: CentOs 5.6 and Time Sync

[Nataraj <incoming-centos@xxxxxxx>]

On 04/15/2011 04:08 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:

On 04/14/2011 06:23 AM, Mailing List wrote:

On 4/14/2011 6:47 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:

Is it really true that the time is working perfectly with one of the
other kernels (the older ones)?

   Johnny,

      Yes, As long as I run the older 5.5 kernel my time is perfect. All
clients can get from this machine with no issues. As soon as I run new
kernel, or Plus kernel for that matter. The time goes downhill. "Uphill
actually"
  
    To answer the previous question I do have the HW clock set to utc,
Everything is stock from initial install of the package.

Brian.

I do not see anything from Dell that is a model C151.

I also do not see anything in the RH bugzilla that is problematic for
older AMD processors and the clock, unless running KVM type virtual
machines.

Is this a VM or regular install?

If this a real machine, do you have the latest BIOS from Dell?

Do you have any special kernel options in grub?

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It also occured to me to ask if this was running in a VM, but it sounded like it was running on actual hardware.    I once had a vmware VM in which I had similar misbehavior of the clock.  Eventually I discovered that the following simple program when run inside the VM would return immediately instead of delaying for 10 seconds as it should.

#include <stdio.h>
/* #include <sys/select.h> */
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>


int main() {
fd_set set;
struct timeval timeout;
int filedes = STDIN_FILENO;


FD_ZERO (&set);
FD_SET (filedes, &set);


timeout.tv_sec = 10;
timeout.tv_usec = 0;

select(FD_SETSIZE, &set, NULL, NULL, &timeout);

}


I then found out that the ISP had set the host OS for my VM to Ubuntu when I was running CentOS 5 in the VM.  The cause was that VMware assumed a tickless kernel for Ubuntu, but not for CentOS 5 and there were optimizations in the VM emulation that counted on VMware knowing what timekeeping options where set in the kernel.

Nataraj

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