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Subject: Re: Voyager subarchitecture for 2.5.46
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
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On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 20:16, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> Processes expecting time to increase strictly monotonically across process
> boundaries will enjoy life in cluster settings or when the admin adjusts the
> time.

I'd fix your cluster code. OpenMosix gets this right and clusters
outside the mosix/numa/ssi world don't generally care as you are
restarting services, but even then tend to use NTP to keep a bendy but
forwarding moving time.

Alan

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