Joe Holden wrote:
Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Joe Holden wrote:
Sounds like you were looking for commercial support, since unpaid
volunteers don't have an obligation to promptly leap out and provide
solutions within your ETA.
Not really, just an acknowledgement would be fine. It is what it is,
everyday I try to argue in favour of the project, I still use it for
myself everywhere but increasingly things happen that just don't on
other volunteer projects... it's rather difficult to argue the case
when they can install Ubuntu or whatever nonsense distro is the
current favourite and it just works. Just a bit more accurate info
would solve it, if it doesn't do X reliably, or Y has changed, note it.
You asked a question and got two or three responses back in a day.
You mentioned trying different timekeeping choices, but I don't recall
seeing what your kern.timecounter sysctl values looked like; without
that, folks are missing info that is likely to be relevant.
Ah, well....
Regards,
Yeah my gripe isn't with having no responses, the handful of people that
have responded have been helpful but ultimately no responses from anyone
involved. Just a one liner saying "we changed the timecounter stuff in
9, look at sysctl tree X" would have been more than sufficient, this
sort of thing should really be mentioned in the relnotes though...
For the record though, setting kern.eventtimer.periodic to 1 fixes the
problem on all affected machines (returns my virtualbox guest to
normality, reduces the drift on physical machines to 8.2 figures).
FWIW, I can't even see any notes relating to this in UPDATING either.
I should probably clarify here that some responses were received from
the maintainers (eg: Qing for mpath) for a couple of bits of code but
the wider issues weren't discussed further. I'm not trying to say that
no effort is made, but as a whole for the project to be comparable to
the alternatives this sort of thing shouldn't happen.
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