[hobbit] Weird application freeze problem

[Henrik Stoerner]

In <48C5E934.3030303 at wi.rr.com> Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina at wi.rr.com> writes:

>I've been testing out Hobbit in a SLES 10 virtual machine on z/VM.  It is
>a monitoring application based off of Big Brother.  So far, it works great
>except for one weird thing.  We have a cron task that runs once a night
>that does ntpdate to sync the time with an NTP server.  If the time is
>in sync, no problem.  However, if the time is out of sync and is adjusted,
>Hobbit freezes.  The tasks still exist, but they just stop doing anything.
>Apache continues to display the same web page without an update.  Stopping
>the Hobbit daemon doesn't help, in fact, it does nothing.  The tasks never
>stop.  I have to recycle the entire system in order to free it up.


Generally, Hobbit gets pretty confused if time goes back. If you must
play around with the system clock regularly, I'd suggest stopping
Hobbit while doing so.

It will wreak havoc on your statistics, though ..


Regards,
Henrik