On 11/7/2011 4:58 PM, unruh wrote: > On 2011-11-07, Nathan Kitchen <nkitc...@aristanetworks.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Danny Mayer <ma...@ntp.org> wrote: >>> On 11/4/2011 7:27 PM, Nathan Kitchen wrote: >>>> I'm curious about some behavior that I'm observing on a host running >>>> ntpd as a client. As I understand it, configuring a local reference >>>> clock--either an undisciplined local clock or orphan mode--shouldn't >>>> help me, but I see different behavior when I do have one. In >>>> particular, when I'm synchronizing after correcting a very large >>>> offset, I synchronize about 2x faster in orphan mode than with no >>>> local clock, and with an undisciplined local clock I don't even fix >>>> the offset. >>>> >>>> I'm curious about whether this difference should be expected. >>>> >>>> I'm using the following configuration in all cases: >>>> >>>> ? ?driftfile /persist/local/ntp.drift >>>> ? ?server 172.22.22.50 iburst >>>> >>>> My three different configurations for local clocks are the following: >>>> >>>> 1. No additional commands >>>> >>>> 2. tos orphan 10 >>>> >>>> 3. server 127.127.1.0 >>>> ? ? fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 >>>> >>>> In all three cases, my test has these steps: >>>> >>>> 1. Stop ntpd. >>>> 2. Set the clock to 2000-1-1 00:00:00 (that is, more than 10 years ago). >>>> 3. Run ntpd -g. >>>> 4. Check that the 11-year offset is corrected. >>>> 5. Wait for synchronization to the time server. >>>> >>>> With either configuration #1 (no local clock) or #2 (orphan mode), the >>>> offset is corrected quickly: 4 and 13 seconds, respectively. With >>>> configuration #3 (undisciplined local clock), it fails to be corrected >>>> within 60 seconds. >>> >>> In case #3 that's expected if there are no servers to get the correct >>> time. What else would you expect? Where would it get it's time from? >> >> In case #3, as in the other cases, the configuration includes the >> server 172.22.22.50. >> >>>> After the offset is corrected, configuration #1 takes 921 seconds to >>>> synchronize to the server. Configuration #2 takes 472. >>>> >>> >>> First, correcting the offset is the major concern. After that figuring >>> out the frequency changes need to be calculated with additional packets >>> being received and that takes time. It needs to have enough of them to >>> do the calculation. > > Actually, that is not the way that ntpd works. It has no concept of > "frequency error". All it knows is the offset. It then changes the > frequency in order to correct the offset. It does not correct the offset > directly. It never figures out what the frequency error is. All it does > is "If offset is positive, speed up the clock, if negative slow it down" > ( where I am defining the offset at "'true' time- system clock time"). > (There is lots that goes into ntp's best estimate of the 'true' time, > which is irrelevant to this discussion)
I never said anything about frequency error. Where did you read that? I talked about frequency changes. The changes you mention that speed up or slow down the clock to bring it into alignment with the reference clocks. That has to be calculated and you need enough packet exchanges to do that. Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
