Problem with a date change ?

[Rob Siemborski]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Ing. Andrea Vettori wrote:

> I have a Cyrus installation on a Compaq dual cpu machine under Linux
> RedHat 9.
>
> Yesterday I had a problem that i suspect is related to having changed
> the system time (from december 1999 to yesterday).
> A few minutes after that, the system was heavy loaded and I noticed
> about 800 master processes.
>
> Does anyone know what happened ?

Earlier master processes didn't deal properly with time warping -- and in
such a case they'll try to execute every event between the beginning of
the time warp and the current time.

So, thats what happened.  Newer versions of cyrus should deal properly
(atleast current CVS, possibly 2.2.3 as well -- I just don't recall
exactly).

-Rob

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