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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hi smokeping Experts,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I like to know if you ever tried running smokeping inside a
VMware virtual machine (Debian Linux guest OS).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The effect I see is that when running smokeping on a
physical box the network is fine, but when running smokeping from inside a
virtual machine a lot of packets appear to be dropped. However, the network
applications itself all seem to be fine.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My guess is that maybe smokeping is very time sensitive. The
virtual machine clock has time jumps and irregularities in the millisecond
range (up to 200 ms). So how well does smokeping cope with a system clock which
does not constantly show the correct time? Could this explain that some packets
appear as dropped (they could just have arrived at unexpected times)?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks a lot in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>F<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Regards.<br>
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</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Frank Wegner</span></font><font size=1 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
</span></font><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
Arial'><a href="http://www.vmware.com"><span lang=DE>http://www.vmware.com</span></a></span></font><span
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Inc., Branch Office <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Place: Unterschleissheim, Freisinger Str. 3, County
Court Munich HRB 149743<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>President: Diane Greene</span></font><font size=1
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