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-
-# IRC, unknown channel, unknown date
-
- <grey_gandalf> I did a sudo date...
- <grey_gandalf> and the machine hangs
-
-This was very likely a misdiagnosis.
-
-
-# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-03-25
-
- <tschwinge> antrik: I suspect it'S some timing stuff in pfinet that perhaps
- uses absolute time, and somehow wildely gets confused?
- <antrik> tschwinge: BTW, pfinet doesn't actually die I think -- it just
- drops open connections...
- <antrik> perhaps it thinks they timed out
- <tschwinge> antrik: Isn't the translator restarted instead?
- <antrik> don't think so
- <antrik> when pfinet actually dies, I also loose the NFS mounts, which
- doesn't happen in this case
- <antrik> hehe "... and the machine hangs"
- <antrik> he didn't bother to check that the machine is perfectly fine, only
- the SSH connection got dropped
- <tschwinge> Ah, I see. So it'S perhaps indeed simply closes TCP
- connections that have been without data for ``too long''?
- <antrik> yeah, that's my guess
- <antrik> my clock is speeding, so ntpdate sets it in the past
- <antrik> perhaps there is some math that concludes the connection have been
- inactive for -200 seconds, which (unsigned) is more than any timeout :-)
- <tschwinge> (The other way round, you might likely get some integer
- wrap-around, and thus the same result.)
- <tschwinge> Yes.
-
-
-# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-10-26
-
- <antrik> anyways, when ntpdate adjusts to the past, the connections hang,
- roughly for the amount of time being adjusted
- <antrik> they do not die though
- <antrik> (well, if it's long enough, they probably timeout on the other
- side...)
-
-
-# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-10-27
-
- <antrik> oh, another interesting thing I observed is that the the subhurd
- pfinet did *not* drop the connection... only the main Hurd one. I thought
- the clock is system-wide?...
- <tschwinge> It is.
- <antrik> it's really fascinating that only the pfinet on the Hurd instance
- where I set the date is affected, and not the pfinet in the other
- instance
-
-
-# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-06-28
-
- <bddebian> great, now setting the date/time fucked my machine
- <pinotree> yes, we lack a monotonic clock
- <pinotree> there are select() loops that use gettimeofday to determine how
- much time to wait
- <pinotree> thus if the time changes (eg goes back), the calculation goes
- crazy
- <antrik> pinotree: didn't you implement a monotonic clock?...
- <pinotree> started to
- <antrik> bddebian: did it really fuck the machine? normally it only resets
- TCP connections...
- <pinotree> yeah, i remember such gettimeofay-based select-loops at least in
- pfinet
- <antrik> I don't think it's a loop. it just drops the connections,
- believing they have timed out
- <bddebian> antrik: Well in this case I don't know because I am at work but
- it fucked me because I now cannot get to it.. :)
- <antrik> bddebian: that's odd... you should be able to just log in again
- IIRC
-
-
-# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-07-29
-
- <antrik> pfinet can't cope with larger system time changes because it can't
- use a monotonic clock
-
-[[clock_gettime]].
-
- <braunr> well when librt becomes easily usable everywhere (it it's
- possible), it will be quite easy to work around this issue
- <pinotree> yes and no, you just need a monotonic clock and clock_gettime
- able to use it
- <braunr> why "no" ?