From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 04:05:47 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <591cd270c5099f5227ae30f89d28141f@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <8ffbd9557190ec716f5b3d79dd6fce8e@quintile.net> References: <8ffbd9557190ec716f5b3d79dd6fce8e@quintile.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] installs which hang Topicbox-Message-UUID: f7981240-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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