Dave wrote: > Looking at the logs on my Sun Blade 2000 running Solaris 10, I see > numerous occasions on which the time has been stepped. Looking at the > few only (today, 1/5/2008), I see it was stepped around +0.3 sec at 3 > AM, then -0.4 at 4:30 am, then half an hour later at 5am it was moved > -0.6 sec, then 40 minutes later it is moved another -0.6 sec. Since then > (its now 1:30 pm), it has not changed.
Positive and negative steps which approximately balance each other indicate a heavily loaded link with variable and asymmetric propagation delays. Apart from local servers, or your Rubidium PPS, or reducing the traffic, the other solutions are to apply and get the ISP to apply traffic shaping to prioritise NTP traffic, or to use the tinker huff and puff option, noting the health warnings attached to it. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
