Hal Murray wrote: >>Well, I was mainly thinking of the case where you have orphan mode set >>up as a fallback to external servers - then the drift value that has >>been calculated while external servers were reachable is a good "quality >>indicator". But I assume the non-"masters" in an orphan-only setup >>calculate a drift relative to the "master" - in that case, if you're >>happy with the drift of the "master", you will be least unhappy if the >>host with the lowest drift relative to the departed "master" is chosen >>as the new "master". > > > The value of drift doesn't have any correlation to goodness. > > What you want is best stability. What is the peak-peak value > of the drift measured over several days? Or something like that. >
I don't think that is correct. No single value of "drift" tells you anything about stability. It only tells you the frequency error of the uncorrected clock. A time history of drift MIGHT tell you something about stability. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
