Anyone seen weird server time issues?

[Wally]

Has anyone who is hosting races seen behaviour where the time left in the session is completely screwed up? I have had the server configured to have a 5 minute practice session, and then in-game it says there are 25 minutes left in the top left corner of the screen. Then we had a qualify session where it was saying "890 seconds to go" in the chat window, like it usually does in the wait time before a race session, but this was qually. We had several sudden server crashes with everyone losing connection, even though the server was still actually running.

Looking in the server log files, the timestamps are screwed, look at these negative times:

6:06:447,LAP,Wally_Masterson,1:19:329,0:41:361,3

6:12:163,LAP,simone_gelli,1:17:823,0:40:164,3

7:19:236,LAP,Stephen_Perryman,1:18:027,0:40:662,4

7:21:382,LAP,Dave_O'Shea,1:18:555,0:40:752,4

7:22:798,LAP,Istvan_Horvath,1:18:192,0:40:569,4

7:25:554,LAP,Wally_Masterson,1:19:110,0:41:328,4

7:29:950,LAP,simone_gelli,1:17:784,0:40:287,4

-11:22:723,LAP,Stephen_Perryman,1:18:081,0:40:632,5

-11:20:277,LAP,Dave_O'Shea,1:18:384,0:40:896,5

-11:15:405,LAP,Wally_Masterson,1:19:071,0:41:052,5

-11:11:638,LAP,simone_gelli,1:18:441,0:40:743,5

-11:11:277,LAP,Istvan_Horvath,1:25:971,0:48:363,5

-10:35:264,LOST,Istvan_Horvath

-10:16:733,LOST,Stephen_Perryman

-10:11:768,LOST,Wally_Masterson

-9:58:792,LOST,simone_gelli

-8:13:675,LOST,Dave_O'Shea

This was one of the times when everyone disappeared and lost connection.

The only thing that was a little unusual about the server config was that I had a custom grid with specific drivers in it, and not all of the drivers showed up. I don't know if that made any difference or not.

Has anyone got any idea what could be causing this?

Edited May 3, 2011 by Wally

[Wally]

It looks like this was caused by running the server on a virtual host. Back on a physical host and the problem seems to have gone away.