[Buildbot-devel] buildbot 0.7.7 slave on RHEL5 not sending keepalive events

[Jannich Thorsen]

Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Jannich Thorsen <jannich at teklatech.com> wrote:
>   
>> But when adding a RHEL5 slave to the setup, it keeps
>> disconnecting/connecting about once every hour. Looking at twistd.log,
>> as shown below, one can see that the keepalive events are not happening
>> every 600s as supposed.
>>     
>
> Is it a VMWare virtual machine?  VMWare machines' clocks have
> absolutely no relationship to reality, which will cause this kind of
> behavior.  We run a crontask to sync clocks every 15m, but still get a
> lot of disconnects.
>
> Dustin
>
>   
Yes, its running on a virtual machine, but so are all our other slaves. 
All slaves sync time against a NTP server, but perhaps they need to do 
it more frequently. But it's strange that only RHEL5 has the problem.

/Jannich