"Your system clock just jumped" on Debian+VMware ESX

[Wilfred L. Guerin]

irupt probs on debian/etc is old kernel according to vmware,

"their kernels are old. 2.6.18+ fixed this."

though there are other concerns on heavier smp sytems



On 2/28/08, M <maillist at piirakka.com> wrote:
> > I am seeing the following errors in the Tor log:
> >
> > [...]
> > Feb 28 04:54:43.008 [notice] Your system clock just jumped 4398 seconds
> > backward; assuming established circuits no longer work.
> > Feb 28 04:54:46.020 [notice] Your system clock just jumped 4399 seconds
> > forward; assuming established circuits no longer work.
> > [...]
>
> I was having the same exact problem on Debian which was running on Xen.
> Removed ntp as the ISP:'s admin recommended, that did not help. Then
> they moved my virtual machine to another host and everything was fine
> for a while. As for now the problem is occuring about once a week, two
> or three error messages.
>
> M
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