From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] installs which hang
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 04:05:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <591cd270c5099f5227ae30f89d28141f@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ffbd9557190ec716f5b3d79dd6fce8e@quintile.net>
On Sat Jun 7 19:22:41 EDT 2014, steve@quintile.net wrote:
> > - timesync. i saw this issue one in 2008, so i don't remember much about it.
>
> I think this was a bug in cron. When the time lept forward as timesync corrected
> the time at boot cron would try to run all the intervening events and hang the machine.
>
> cron now ignores time changes if they are big.
>
> Having said this my memory is a little hazy too...
it can also lock up the machine updating "too fast". without help
from cron. i just don't remember the details of why this resulted
in a hang.
- erik
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-08 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-07 15:45 erik quanstrom
2014-06-07 17:16 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-06-07 23:21 ` Steve Simon
2014-06-08 8:05 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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