[rt-devel] Time Drift

[Jeff Ballard]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:41:32 -0600  Alex Meyer wrote:

> The weird thing is we have other instances of redhat running on the  
> same vmware box and the clock is pretty accurate...  we run ntpdate  
> every morning out of cron and it's good to go, no constant NTP required.
> 
> I'm not even sure if you'd call this drift, it can get off by 7  
> minutes within 15 minutes of setting it.
> 
> It appears that the consensus is RT/RTIR are not in the wrong though  
> so I will defer further posting further details. You've all been very  
> helpful.

Furthermore, if you are having clock issues with hosts under vmware, you 
should really read the following article:

"Question: Why does the clock in my Linux guest consistently run more slowly 
or more quickly than real world time?"

http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1420

HTH

-Jeff

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