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[ale] Clock Drift in VMware Server
- Subject: [ale] Clock Drift in VMware Server
- From: cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)
- Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 18:01:35 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <1243544035.31396.133.camel@compaq> <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 17:15 -0400, Brian MacLeod wrote:
> Here at Tech, our ESX hosted machines have the ntpd service installed,
> configured and enabled.
>
I have ntpd running on each guest and even the host. It is syncing from
us.pool.ntp.org. Still I need a script to run ntpdate every 5 minutes.
At least every 5 minutes get me down to less than 60s drift
28 May 17:34:26 ntpdate[20089]: step time server 69.10.36.5 offset
11.454649 sec
28 May 17:40:18 ntpdate[20700]: step time server 69.10.36.2 offset
50.063835 sec
28 May 17:45:45 ntpdate[21412]: step time server 69.10.36.2 offset
25.272149 sec
28 May 17:51:38 ntpdate[22254]: step time server 69.10.36.2 offset
51.138394 sec
28 May 17:57:03 ntpdate[22990]: step time server 72.52.190.26 offset
24.190733 sec