[Users] Clock in VPS loosing time quickly

[Kir Kolyshkin]

Can you issustrate that? I.e. give us the output of "date; vzctl exec 
NNN date" and the same after a few minutes/hours.

May it be that your VE have a different time zone than a host system?

Jim Archer wrote:
> Hi Kirill, thanks very much for the quick reply.  The host system's 
> clock is dead on because the host system runs NTP.  Its just the VPSs 
> that get messed up.
>
>
>
> --On Sunday, May 04, 2008 11:19 AM +0400 Kirill Korotaev 
> <dev at parallels.com> wrote:
>
>> 1. plz check that host time screws up quickly as well.
>> 2. check dmesg on boot and find what timesource was selected by 
>> kernel on
>> boot.    most likely you need to boot with someother timesource like tsc
>> or hpet.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kirill
>>
>> Jim Archer wrote:
>>> Hi All...
>>>
>>> I am running OpenVZ on a Debian server, uname -a returns:
>>>
>>> 2.6.18-fza-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 1 16:15:07 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> I am finding that my VPSs lose time very quickly.  I have tried
>>> installing an NTP client but this does not seem to work properly.  Is
>>> there a recommended way to keep my clocks set properly?