Re: Server Problem

Dave Page wrote:

>OK, obviously these things are sent to try us :-)
>
>

Those glory days, when we made calculations using fingers, stones and
shells....

>The new server hosting the cvs and developer has developed what we can
>only put down to a motherboard fault - basically;
>
>- The system clock is running about twice as fast as it should, no
>matter what I do with ntpd or adjtimex! Bizarrely though the hw clock is
>fine, but I found some posts on the net suggesting there might be a
>phase locked loop problem on the mobo.
>
>
>

Maybe the machine is in a hurry, but to do what?!?

>- APIC errors have started appearing on boot for each CPU :-(
>
>Currently, the system appears stable (it has never crashed), and the
>system clock is being resynced to the hardware clock every 5 minutes so
>if you see any odd timestamps in CVS, that's why!
>
>

We should be very careful about that, I've seen some really nasty
problems with version checking systems when timestamps are not precise
(with Visual SourceSafe)

Quite often, I do an update just before committing. THIS SHOULD BE
AVOIDED as long the server's clock might take back steps. Instead, there
should be > 5 minutes of delay after updating (if clock is synced every
5 minutes) . This could prevent some future headache on repository
consistency.

>PS. I think I'm getting the flu so may be offline for a coupla days :-(
>
>
Already got one, still fighting to suppress it. BTW, maybe
dev.pgadmin.org caught the double speed virus?!?

Regards,
Andreas