Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > It seems to me, a very rare situation where a 5 second difference would > cause such a severe consequence. It's almost difficult to imagine how it > even could.
In our case, there was a file which appeared on one machine which was not visible on another, both being NFS clients of a 3rd machine (all machines virtual RHEL5.1). I didn't think such extreme behavior was time related but I fixed time skew first because I'd experience NFS squirreliness years ago with time skew and wanted that out of the way while I psychoanalyzed the machines. However, as soon as I had the time synced the problem went away and hasn't been back since. Such symptom still seems very extreme for such a lowly cause, but until it comes back when times are in sync I'm assuming correlation. I did have the rather extreme case that vmtools was syncing the machine against the host system which was several minutes skewed relative to the time server and ntpd was *also* running. Thus I had 2 competing time sync processes and poor NFS being beaten up between them. -- Dewey _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
