On Sat Jun 7 19:22:41 EDT 2014, st...@quintile.net wrote: > > - timesync. i saw this issue one in 2008, so i don't remember much about > > it. > > I think this was a bug in cron. When the time lept forward as timesync > corrected > the time at boot cron would try to run all the intervening events and hang > the machine. > > cron now ignores time changes if they are big. > > Having said this my memory is a little hazy too...
it can also lock up the machine updating "too fast". without help from cron. i just don't remember the details of why this resulted in a hang. - erik
