Hi Ellie, On Monday, 12. September 2016 11:35:45 ellie timoney wrote: [clock jumps] > Or does it? The man page says it's "not affected by discontinuous > jumps in the system time (e.g., if the system administrator manually > changes the clock)" -- great -- "but is affected by the incremental > adjustments performed by adjtime(3) and NTP". Which sounds to me like > NTP might still be an issue? (But: I have no real world experience of > this, I'm just reading man pages here.)
Good point. Not sure here, we didn't encounter an issue for a long time. The event itself is rather rare these days. > > Would it make sense to enable the timeout by default? > > In the current version of the patch it's disabled (value 0). > > I'm interested in hearing thoughts on this, particularly with regard to > what a reasonable default timeout might be. Though I like the "no > behaviour change unless you change configuration" aspect of defaulting > to 0. We'll push out the three days default value next week. I can report back in a month how good or bad the results are. Cheers, Thomas
