David, David J Taylor wrote:
> Tom Smith wrote: > [] >> It's losing time, which could suggest lost interrupts. However, >> the steps every half hour make me wonder if your server is doing the >> stepping. The fact that 2 different clients have the same problem >> in any case suggests a common cause. What is/are the server(s)? >> It's not a Windows "NTP server", is it? > > There's nothing wrong with a properly configured Windows system running as > an NTP server, with the distributed NTP software. If you meant to say > that running the Microsoft "W32time" software does not provide a fully > compliant NTP service, then I would completely agree with your doubts! Windows *is* a lousy timekeeper. We've had a customer where the Windows system clock has lost about 30 seconds (!) whenever a scheduled job was run to deal with their databases. Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
