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

[Ben Hearsum]

Depending on your virtualization technology, you may be able to make  
it work a bit better. For example, for VMware: http://www.adrianbradshaw.co.uk/secretwiki/index.php/VMware-Time-Sync

Cheers.
- Ben

On 11-Aug-08, at 10:40 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Jannich Thorsen <jannich at teklatech.com 
> > wrote:
>> 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.
>
> You can't sync a virtual machine against NTP -- you can only set its
> clock (using rdate or ntpdate) and hope that the kernel manages to
> keep decent time until the next time you set the clock.
>
> Dustin
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