Warning: VKTM detected a forward time drift followed by Oracle 12.2 crash
On April 19th we had a problem for the fourth time that the Oracle service on a Windows server terminated suddenly. The Windows event log says: “ID 7034: The OracleServiceDWH1TCDB service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this … time(s).” Fortunately, it is only a test server so there is no impact on our business processes.
In all cases the last entry in the alert log before the crash was "Warning: VKTM detected a forward time drift."
A second common feature of the crashes is that they always happened a few minutes before the half hour. The exact timestamps are as follows: