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On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 10:56 +0100, Leon Keijser wrote:
> > Guy (and hopefull girls),
> >
> > This has nothing to do with LVS and/ or heartbeat. I guess you are
> > running a Linux guest within a Linux host vmware server (or
> > ESX)? If so,
>
> Yup, ESX.
>
> > - On the VMWare Server management console webinterface, go
> > to Options ,
> > Advanced Settings, and search fro the option Misc.TimerHardPeriod.
> > Default value is 1000 , adjust it to 333.
>
> I'm guessing this will affect all virtual servers?
Yes it does.
>
> > On the linux guest machine:
> >
> > -For Grub edit: /boot/grub/menu.lst add "clock=pmtmr" to add
> > the end of
> > your current kernel and reboot.
>
> I did (without doing the first) and this already looks promising. Heartbeat
> now says every 5 minutes (in syslog) that it has compensated because the
> clock jumped backwards, but i guess this is okay.
>
> Btw, the kb on vmware.com said the same, except forgot to mention that this
> is a kernel parameter. So they advised to put this line at the end of
> grub.conf ... hmpf
Good to know. You still get minimal time fluctuations. For our setup,
this was acceptable.
>
> > -This should fix your problem (run ntpd on both host and guest OS, no
> > vmware-tools)
>
> Hm, but somebody else just advised against using ntpd, and recommended
> ntpdate.
Well, you have totest this for yourself. Our results showed that we get
better results with ntpd insteda of ntpdate.
>
> > More info on this issue (not appropriate fix though):
> >
> > http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/stdadp.php?pfaqid=1339
> > http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/stdadp.php?pfaqid=1420
> > https://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?forumID21&threadI
> > D13498&messageID=138110#138110
> > H
> > https://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?forumID21&threadI
> > D16921&messageID=185408#185408
> > http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/stdadp.php?pfaqid=1518
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Sebastiaan Veldhuisen
> > Arsenso
> > Artistic, Sensible and Sound
> > www.arsenso.nl
>
> dank u!
>
>
> Léon
Your welcome :)
regards,
Sebastiaan
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