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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm not running ntpd on my vps. I do not know
about the host though; if its time was updated would that effect all the
vps's?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If Icculus will change the server's behavior, I'll
just patiently wait for the next patch (unless he needs a beta tester
:))</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks!</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=biz@baze.de href="mailto:biz@baze.de">biz</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ut3@icculus.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 21, 2008 10:14
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ut3] Negative Delta Time on
Xen VPS</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 11:07:13PM -0500, Masher wrote:<BR>>
Critical: Detected negative delta time - on AMD systems please install<BR>>
<A
href="http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_13118,0">http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_13118,0</A><BR>>
0.html<BR><BR>Are you running a ntp daemon? UT3 uses gettimeofday(), thus it
will <BR>crash if ntpd slows down the system clock while the server is
running.<BR><BR>Icculus wrote he'll change this:<BR>> The next patch will
change Unreal's behaviour to just consider the <BR>> current frame as zero
milliseconds, add a line to the logfile, and <BR>> continue on...so you
might get a small time distortion of a few <BR>> milliseconds if this is a
one-time occurrence, but the server won't crash.<BR><BR>If you don't depend on
real sync with timeservers, just shut down<BR>services using gettimeofday(),
use ntpdate to set the time<BR>and restart services and the UT3 server
again.<BR><BR>Note: ntpdate jumps once to sync time, ntpd tries to do this in
forms<BR>of slowing down or speeding up the system clock so that running
services<BR>don't crash. Just wait for the next patch if you _need_
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