2026-04-04 14:07 UTC
@HalvarFlake@mastodon.social even measuring latency in a busy VM is not reliable, as usually time drift is amortized by hypervisors as we found out 10 years ago with our benchmark team so wall-clock lies in VMS... If you need the 99p bare metal is your only real option. But do you really need it? Most want it (as we promised our clients) but don't really need it(as something fails hard) though
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@slowcoding@toot.community 2026-04-04 14:12
@HalvarFlake@mastodon.social link from back then, don't know how accurate this still is (2008) Look at the tick counting section for an overview of the problem https://www.vmware.com/docs/vmware_timekeeping