From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 19 19:21:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C26116A410 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:21:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@jellydonut.org) Received: from mail2.secureworks.net (mail2.secureworks.net [65.114.32.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44FF413C480 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:21:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@jellydonut.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.secureworks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BDEF171FB; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:21:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at secureworks.net Received: from mail2.secureworks.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail2.secureworks.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fjvBAmC1ajts; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:21:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.23.35] (mole1.secureworks.net [63.239.86.3]) by mail2.secureworks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56F09171B9; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:21:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <45FEE2BE.8090607@jellydonut.org> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:21:34 -0400 From: Michael Proto User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070306 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Behrens References: <200703191609.l2JG9ql8060947@pinky.frank-behrens.de> <200703191845.l2JIjuWN064035@pinky.frank-behrens.de> In-Reply-To: <200703191845.l2JIjuWN064035@pinky.frank-behrens.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Dotson , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: time goes slow in VmWare X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:21:35 -0000 Frank Behrens wrote: > Mark Dotson wrote on 19 Mar 2007 9:50: >> (Add the following to /boot/loader.conf and reboot: kern.hz="100") >> >> Worked well for me. I still have minor drift (about 5 minutes after a >> week) but it can easily be handled by ntp at that point. >> >> I'd give that a try. :-) > > As I wrote in my previous post it does not work for me. :-( > After setting kern.hz to 100, have you tried the following in the .VMX file for this virtual machine: tools.syncTime="TRUE" Of course, VMWare-tools also needs to be installed in the guest. With hz=100 and this setting I haven't seen much of this problem anymore. -Proto