On 26 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following: > On 25 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following: > >> On 25 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] told this: >> >>> I suspect this can go wrong anywhere, but it happens to have been a >>> CBQ-triggered gettimeofday() while sending an arp that did it. (My ADSL >>> router pretty much bombs the poor damn machine with ARP packets all the >>> time.) >> >> Woo, it's happening a lot tonight. > > The cause of this is almost certainly time-skewing on the *host* via > adjtimex(). I stopped ntpd and there were no problems for half a day: I > restarted it, and as soon as ntpd had synched and begun slewing the time > (within a second of slewing beginning, probably less than that), *wham*:
Time-stepping on the host is enough to cause trouble. I switched to using ntpdate -b to keep time in synch, and since then my UML instances have gone into mad loops only on the hour, when the ntpdate time-step should take place. -- `If you are having a "ua luea luea le ua le" kind of day, I can only assume that you are doing no work due [to] incapacitating nausea caused by numerous lazy demons.' --- Frossie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
