[Spacewalk-list] Why I want to give up on spacewalk

[John Hodrien]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Andre Dill wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> In my experience on a fully loaded Vmware server ntpd is not good
> enough.
> I have had skew of 30s + in a minute - ntpd just cannot handle such skew
> and freaks out.
> Eventually my solution for the development VMware server was to run a
> manual ntpdate via cron every minute -- horrible kludge I know - but
> this is a dev server, the production servers are not so heavily loaded.

Is that even with the recommended kernel arguments?

If so, then ye gads!

jh

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