From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 06:20:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D6A0106567A for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 06:20:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28E6F8FC15 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 06:20:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so851123ywe.13 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:20:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=nGyVUPWrFbcfXzlTKRwN2L7OK9ojoio0XNvKxkaQsNo=; b=NLXk7LPdzDESScI0uUj49mbslYu8cWiOylfsJYmvrT3VYjpjlAyu0ftLYPi0Xvf36T OiQcZidQ3Drn4UMhSNS60X9S73joZRrDk+N4vkwxPc+GTPaq7fhxFZcXLEpDxWuD3PSL njnoAGcLlRN2J4OKJjQZ0vtTbtHALv5Uc2MBA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=ZdvMeHDu3OZm1k9DukmQY/z/S13FgyqLGHVsNl/2z/hIkIR4dP/XMH8wSj6/om3ojv lXH/iR8VnwQoRq0XLh2vNje3Ufs0imo/gnHjP6zJyfndB7ttALaL8dXD9CO0EO94+qu/ H7C5fcWXfQjqG53yZ3IUBvJyDBqpm9cwqnVgM= Received: by 10.150.12.3 with SMTP id 3mr3688717ybl.15.1212906025349; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:20:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.219.9 with HTTP; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:20:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <991123400806072320h3e64b39vae2bc351b0a1fecf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 09:20:25 +0300 From: "Odhiambo Washington" To: "Duane Hill" In-Reply-To: <20080607170645.3ac211e7@home.dubuque.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48499CCD.2010708@m2.seamanpaper.com> <991123400806062332r70a7b34co5c93ad14fdacb79f@mail.gmail.com> <484A8D73.8040803@yahoo.com> <20080607170645.3ac211e7@home.dubuque.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware timekeeping X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:20:26 -0000 On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Duane Hill wrote: > On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:30:27 -0400 > Peter Thoenen confabulated: > >> > I run FreeBSD 7.0 inside VMware Workstation-6.0.4 (ACE Edition) and >> > I don't have to setup anything. The time is the always same as the >> > host >> >> How long do you keep it up though Odhiambo and how intensive are you >> using your native OS? I have a similar setup and while it sync's on >> boot, I routinely lose 15 minutes a day (I keep it up 24x7). I think >> it is not so much a bug in VMware as opposed to the host OS running >> slower than it thinks (e.g. maybe a second of OS time is really >> 1.000001 seconds of real time adding up over long periods) if the >> native OS is under moderate to heavy use. > > I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE within Vmware v6.0.4 build 93057 with > the host OS being XP-Home-SP2. I also have two jails running within the > FreeBSD VM. > > I have within /boot/loader.conf: > kern.hz="50" Oh, this explains why I never has issues with time. I always have kern.hz="100" in loader.conf and I run ntpdate on startup. Sorry if I mislead others. -- EB White - "Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."