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 _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
