[ale] Clock Drift in VMware Server

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

Drag0n wrote:
> This has been a long going issue with the Server product line.
> 
> http://communities.vmware.com/message/712851#712851
> 
> It seems to be worse under heavy loads. I have yet to see the issue on 
> ESXi guests thought.
> 
> If you have that option, it may be advisable to move to that platform. 
> the only way i found around that was an hourly or more frequent time 
> update with ntpdate in the crontab.
> 

I'm curious: why not run the ntp daemon instead to get more frequent
clock updates?

http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-algo.htm#Q-ALGO-CLK-UPD

All the best,
Brian Pitts