On 13 November 2012 18:38, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 08:00:23PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > [list of packages] >> ntpdate >> chrony > > On EC2 (as in many virt environments) the hardware clock source is actually > synced and running an ntpd service on the client is redundant. > <bikeshed=blue> They say it is .... but it is not always. I have had multiple cases in KVM and some in Xen where supposedly the clock is kept up but what you end up is actually watching time go backwards if you hit heavy load in IO or CPU or Mem. Of course if you run into hardware like that.. you can install it after your DB has gone poopsies. </bikeshed> -- Stephen J Smoogen. "Don't derail a useful feature for the 99% because you're not in it." Linus Torvalds "Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
