On 3 Jun 2008, Daniel Hazelton said: > On Tuesday 03 June 2008 03:32:11 pm Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:02:35 -0400 >> >> Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Protection against the host's time going backwards - keep track of the >> > time at the last tick and if it's greater than the current time, keep >> > time stopped until the host catches up. >> >> Strange. What would cause the host's time (or at least UML's perception >> of it) to go backwards? > > A wild guess would be that the UML process is running "fast" at some point > and > its expectation of the host's time is skewed forward because of that.
Quite so. Simply running ntp on the host (in slew-only mode, no less!) can cause this. > Another possibility is that the hosts clock got reset between the times UML > has checked it and the correction was a negative one. That too. -- `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: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
