On 07/22/2016 10:46 AM, Matt Wagner wrote:
> This is a good idea. After my little AWS instance in Brazil was being
> crippled by load, a burlier box I had outside of Brazil was manually put in
> the .br zone, and has been able to soak up about 1,800 queries/second.
> Resource usage is still relatively low, so I'd be happy to help with some
> other zones, having seen how frustrating it can be to be in an underserved
> zone.
>
> Estimating load may be trickier than it seems. The AWS instance is at 10
> Mbps and averages 2,800 qps. The other box is set to 100 Mbps but only gets
> 1,800/second. I confess that I don't entirely understand why this is.

Looking at the join page: http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/join.html

> Currently most servers get about 5-15 NTP packets per second with
> spikes a couple of times a day of 60-120 packets per second. This is
> roughly equivalent to 10-15Kbit/sec with spikes of 50-120Kbit/sec. The
> project steadily acquires more timeservers, so the load should not
> increase dramatically for each server. In plain terms, you probably
> need at least 384-512Kbit bandwidth (in and out-going). 

That may need to be updated?

-- 
Scott Baker - Canby Telcom 
Senior System Administrator - RHCE


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