On 4/2/06, Danny Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That should have no more affect on NTP than anything else running on the > box. We have seen no such affects. If you want to report a problem then > you need to send much more detail.
I'm not reporting a specific issue, I'm just pointing out potential problem areas for the original poster to look at. Additional, systemic, asymmetric latency on the Windows machines would certainly make them less accurate than his Linux boxes. I am confident, for instance, that there is non-trivial latency added by Symantec Client Security running on Windows when it tries to match IDS and AV patterns on all network activity. This is something Linux boxes wouldn't do. I've never tried to measure it, but it would be interesting to see what it does to NTP performance. > I'm really not sure why you think that restarts have such a great effect > on NTP. It's designed to converge quickly and certainly no more than > about a day. On both of my stratum-2 boxes on Windows 2003sp1, they converge to withing a half-dozen milliseconds in about 8 hours. But after running for several days, they seem to converge to within ~1 ms offset. I don't know why that is, but NTP certainly does seem to get better on my Windows machines over longer periods of time. When I frequently restart a machine, I never get much better than 10ms accuracy. I don't know why that is, other than NTP isn't disciplining the clock during the actual shutdown and restart. Of course drift would only be about 2 ms per minute of NTPd downtime on a 30ppm machine. But it seems to me after NTPd is down it over corrects a bit with the drift calculation and I get a few swings before it settles in after 8 or so hours. I posted a chart of this "restart over correction" on an XP box at: http://www.malayter.com/NTPovercorrectAfterRestart.gif Each of the dips followed by an over correction (including the huge over correction in the middle that I can't explain) corresponds to a reboot of XP SP2. Ntp.drift is currently 9.208 on the system. Four low-jitter stratum-2 servers near me are the time sources (they're run by university CS departments and even a national laboratory, so I think they're pretty good). Please understand that all I am trying to do is help the original poster figure out why his XP workstations aren't performing as well as his Linux boxes. I am not "complaining" about anything or assaulting your work in any way. I think the Meinberg package of NTPd is fantastic. My basic concern was that the original poster might be comparing the NTP accuracy of Linux machines that are always on to Windows XP workstations that are frequently restarted or even shut down for periods of time. Regards, Ryan _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
