fyi, been seeing some packet loss to my vps.  just the vps itself, not any of the hops along the way (even the penultimate one).
http://inetpro.org/pastebin/7bdaeda9fd364aeb84ed595c19453fa3/view/raw   <-- only a 10 second snapshot, but it's been a consistent 35-40% for the last several minutes
up_the_irons: hey garry, do you have a centos 6 x86 image?
nevermind, ignore that
jlgaddis: he doesn't.  he had me load the os from the .iso
jlgaddis: I had to do some trickery in C6, so that yum didn't dump core.  however, I don't recall what that trickery was right now.
jlgaddis: grepping logs:   18:26:35 <jpalmer> interestingly,  initial trials after re-installing with clock=pmtmr divider=10  look good.
gonna go w/ fbsd on a new vps but noted for future reference, thanks
Tarsnap now supports Canada.