Hi! ----
I'm hitting some problems with Solaris guest installations in VMware (e.g. Solaris being the guest in a VMware VM): Sometimes the clock is going out-of-sync. I configured "xntpd" to counteract these issues - but suddenly at one point all hell breaks loose: -- snip -- Mar 4 08:41:33 s10test001 xntpd[197]: [ID 774427 daemon.notice] time reset (step) 2.586803 s Mar 4 09:00:26 s10test001 xntpd[197]: [ID 774427 daemon.notice] time reset (step) 1.232798 s Mar 4 09:41:23 s10test001 xntpd[197]: [ID 774427 daemon.notice] time reset (step) 1.362310 s Mar 4 09:54:27 s10test001 xntpd[197]: [ID 774427 daemon.notice] time reset (step) 0.871155 s Mar 4 10:10:06 s10test001 xntpd[197]: [ID 774427 daemon.notice] time reset (step) 1.484290 s Mar 4 10:22:17 s10test001 xntpd[197]: [ID 774427 daemon.notice] time reset (step) 1.554894 s Mar 4 10:34:28 s10test001 xntpd[197]: [ID 774427 daemon.notice] time reset (step) 1.523908 s Mar 4 10:43:09 s10test001 genunix: [ID 982299 kern.warning] WARNING: Time of Day clock error: reason [Changed in Clock Rate]. -- Stopped tracking Time Of Day clock. -- snip -- Beyond this kernel warning the OS clock drifs away from the host system (usually four or more hours per day!!), causing various problems at NFS, NIS+/SecureRPC and Kerberos level. Restarting xntpd readjusts the clock - but only for the restart and it does not sync the clock anymore beyond that point (which suprises me a lot). Heavy swapping at the host OS level (e.g. the operating system in which the VMware VM runs; the whole memory of the virtual PC environment is swappable at the host operating system level :-) ) makes this problem even worse to a point that stuff like "gmake" (on NFS shared home dirs) and the services listed above start to fail randomly. Guest is running Solaris 10 Update 1 (kernel patch 118844-26), host OS is SuSE Linux 10.0, VMware version is 5.5.1 build 19175 /etc/inet/ntp.conf simply looks like this: -- snip -- % cat /etc/inet/ntp.conf server ns1.hrz.uni-giessen.de -- snip -- Ideas/suggestions/comments welcome... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
