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On 04/25/2013 11:02 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> On 2013-04-25 10:33 AM, Nick Khamis <symack@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp |
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>> server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are |
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>> considered viable. I did see the |
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>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. |
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> Are these virtualized? It makes a difference, and from everything I've |
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> read, you don't sync virtualized servers the same as bare metal servers. |
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>> Our services are quite time sensitive. |
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> Ummm... *all* servers are critically time-sensitive. |
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Some are more critical than others. If you're primarily worried about |
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kerberos, variance of up to a couple minutes will likely go unnoticed. |
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If you're dumping logs into splunk, and need second-precision timestamps |
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to be comparable to each other across a multi-campus network, that's a |
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different degree of time-sensitive. If you're using a distributed |
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filesystem with time-sensitive conflict resolution algorithms, you could |
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easily start caring down to sub-millisecond ranges. |
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