similar to: tick divider bugs

Under 4.6, we recompiled the kernel with HZ=100 for improved time-keeping in VMware guests. I've read about the backporting of the divider patch into RHEL/CentOS 4.7, but it sounds like it also comes with some bugs. I have been unable to determine the current status of the divider option in the latest 4.7 kernel update. I have experimented with "divider=10" and it works with no major

Hi everyone, I have been struggling with having the clock of Linux VM's (including CentOS 4.6 and 5.1) running very fast under VMWare, no matter what I have tried. My platform: - AMD Turion X2 TL-60 - AMD 690 chipset with integrated Radeon x1250 (probably doesn't concern in this case) - Windows Vista Ultimate x64, all Windows Update patches loaded (no SP1 yet) - 4GB RAM - VMWare

Hello, I was thinking of creating a wiki page about Xen clocksources and timekeeping.. including dom0, PV guests and HVM guests. Dan and Jeremy: You guys might have some ideas for this page.. please let me know your thoughts :) Subjects to cover: - Xen hypervisor clocksources (hpet, acpi_pm, pit) - Xen dom0 clocksource, ntpd, etc - Xen PV guest clocksources, independent_wallclock, ntpd,

I'm running VMware Server 1.0.6 on a CentOS 5.2 host and am having some clock difficulties. Host OS is x86_64 running on 1.9 GHz AMD Sempron, nVidia chipset. Guest OS's are 32-bit FreeBSD (clock works fine after disabling ACPI, setting the clock source to the PIT, and running the guest tools), WinXP (unknown clock status), and i686 CentOS 5.2 (here is the problem). I've tried pretty

Hi, I am running CentOS 5.3 32bit as a VirtualBox 3.0.0 guest running on Windows XP. The Windows host CPU usage is constantly at 50% although the CentOS guest is completely idle (i.e. 0.00 load average). I know this is a common problem related to the 1000Hz frequency that the CentOS kernel runs at. With previous versions of CentOS, I used the kernel-vm package [1] and it solved my problem.

Howdy, I am having time-drift issues on my CentOS VM. I had referred to following documentation: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VMWare_Server , however it didn't help. I used kickstart for creating this VM and I am listing important steps in ref to timekeeping issue. Any comments or suggestion would be appreciated. - CS. ------------------- # For EL5 virtual machines, Append the

OK, so I need to bring up a new vm and was wondering what the state of vm kernels for centos. I have read this http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189about the tick divider but it wasn't clear what the best step forward is for centos 5.1 was, i usually ran with the clocksource=pit option and it looked like that and the divider option caused a problem. I have in the past compiled my own but

Hi folks, I hope this is the right place to ask - if not I can switch to the CentOS mailing list. I am running GITCOs 3.4.3 hypervisor with original RHEL5.5/CentOS5.5 kernels in dom0 and domU. I have phenonema I want to get rid of (like time running wild - really wild). So I am looking for a way to compile a kernel with all CentOS refinements/backports/additions and xen 3.4.3. I have

Thanks for all the great stuff. Executive Summary: Kernel Parameters or Special Kernel for 5.2 on VMWare? More Details: Is it the best practice to use the specially compiled kernels (when available, typically here: http://people.centos.org/~tru/kernel-vm/5/RPMS/i386/ ) or are kernel parameters now able to achieve the same thing? This bug report: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189 seems

We've noticed our fully-virtualized KVM guests' time keeps getting faster, despite running ntpd. A quick google reveals this to be a known problem with virtual guests. It seems there are a variety of solutions, some apparently vendor-specific. What is the best practice as of now for KVM guests? * Setting independent_wallclock=1 (or is that a xen-only thing)? * Passing kernel

On Debian Squeeze (2.6.32-5) running Xen 4.0, I have created 2 Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) vms. The vms, in a stress test, pass a large file between them via nfs file sharing. A previous entry in this forum helped to establish that some ethernet cards improve VM IO performance. However, our box installed with better intel nics is still rebooting under heavy VM IO loads. The kernel call

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:02:34 +0800, gang.wei@intel.com wrote: > I am the original developer of HPET broadcast code. > > First of all, to disable HPET broadcast, no additional patch is required. > Please simply add option "cpuidle=off" or "max_cstate=1" at xen cmdline in > /boot/grub/grub.conf. > > Second, I noticed that the issue just occur on

I read http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189 Summary: CentOS is not getting optimal performance in a virtualized environment and on slow cpus but I am not sure I understand the current best practice. Your thoughts would be appreciated. Options as I see them: 1. Run kernel-vm-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 with clocksource=pit until the excellent CentOS team builds the latest kernel into a VM kernel

Running Dovecot 2.0.8 on 32bit Centos5.5. The machine is a VMWare ESX VM. I'm seeing a lot of warning messages in syslog as follows: 2011-01-14T11:45:37.315917+08:00 imap4 dovecot: imap: Warning: Time jumped forwards 105 seconds 2011-01-14T11:46:00.598006+08:00 imap4 dovecot: imap: Warning: Time jumped forwards 106 seconds 2011-01-14T11:46:25.364405+08:00 imap4 dovecot: imap: Warning: Time

Hello gurus, I have two physical xen hosts and when I migrate a domU from one host to another, I get many of this error from domU kernel: clocksource/0: Time went backwards: delta=-3536123661 shadow=686019823475 offset=281887188 Sometimes domU time stalls and network stops working, but other times it gets working again. The two hosts are using different platform timer source:

[Follow-ups set to gmane.linux.centos.general] My wife had been running CentOS 6.4 almost since its inception; then her PC broke down. We got a PC from System76, and Ubuntu turned out utterly unsuitable for us, as expected -- as bad for us as Gnome3. (I had previously bought a System76 net book (starling iirc), and immediately installed the then current Fedora; all has been

Hello - I am using AH on VMWARE. I have noticed that the date and time periodically loses sync with the server system time. Does anyone know why this would be, or where if I need to change a setting somewhere so it keeps time properly? Thanks! Alan. --------------------------------- Want to be your own boss? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. -------------- next part

Hi everyone: Just a follow up on the fast clock issue: "Can you double-check that 'cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq' outputs the same number as your 'cpuKHZ' setting in your config.ini file?" There is no cpufreq directory under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0; all I see is "cache" (dir), "crash_notes" (a file) and

Hey all, I was watching some logs on a domU today and i suddenly noticed that the timestamps were off by something on the order of 47 seconds. I was surprised because *I don''t* run independent wall clocks. I checked some other domUs and the "drift" was also very close to that of the first domU. I also checked another dom0, Here the domUs were "only" out of sync by

Hi, I have a virtual machine which fails to boot linux-4.1.8 while mounting file systems: > * Mounting local filesystem ... > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > kernel BUG at drivers/block/virtio_blk.c:172! > invalid opcode: 000 [#1] SMP > Modules linked in: pcspkr psmouse dm_log_userspace virtio_net e1000 fuse nfs lockd grace sunrpc fscache dm_snapshot dm_bufio dm_mirror