|
Hi All,
VMware KB is erroneous.
Add "clock = pit" in the same line of "kernel" in grub.conf like this
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.EL ro root=/LABEL=/ rhgb quiet clock=pit
Best Regards,
Bunpot T.
On 11/17/05, Sebastiaan Veldhuisen <seppo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
> _______________________________________________
> LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Send requests to lvs-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> or go to http://www.in-addr.de/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
>
|
