[CentOS] Xen clock drift

Tue Jan 8 13:05:57 UTC 2008
Rick Barnes <linux at sitevision.com>


Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2008 4:51 AM, Rick Barnes <linux at sitevision.com> wrote:
>> Jack Bailey wrote:
>>> These domains are fully virtualized and set up identically, except
>>> "badclock" is allocated two processors versus one processor for
>>> "goodclock".  DomU's clock is running normally.
>>>
>>> Anyone know what's going or know how to fix it?
>> This is a known issue that has come up on this list a lot.
>>
>> For C5.1 see the first known issue:
>>
>> http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.1/
>>
>> Rick
> 
> Please note that the clock rate issue in that description applies to
> non-xen kernels.  xen kernels are set to 250Hz by default.

"With this option you can reduce the clock rate from the default of
1000HZ to 100HZ which is desirable in a virtual machine."

If it does not apply to xen then this should be made more clear.

Rick