Hello, I’m seeing clock drift in my application’s container. It’s at about -1.15s off, and seems to survive app restarts (guess it’s the host’s clock that’s drifted?). Do you recommend running ntpd/chrony in containers? Or some other fix in the guest?
The clock shouldn’t drift, which region is this happening in?
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That’s interesting. Our init updates the clock in the VM every 15s. Firecracker times drift, but I’m surprised it’s that much: firecracker/FAQ.md at main · firecracker-microvm/firecracker · GitHub
How are you detecting the drift, is is something we can replicate?
Sure, in an alpine container, i run echo 'server 0.us.pool.ntp.org' > /etc/ntp.conf ; ntpd -n and see “ntpd: setting time to 2021-11-01 15:31:26.319249 (offset -1.159240s)” in the output.
chronyd also prints “System’s initial offset : 1.158265 seconds fast of true (slew)” when i run it manually.
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Ok thanks, give us a bit to investigate.
looks good now, thanks!