Brian Utterback wrote: > Unruh wrote: > >> Just because A has credibility does not mean that B does not. credibility >> is not an exclusive property. There can be disagreements between >> honest men >> without one having "no credibility". >> >> Note that the NTP algorithms are NOT fundamentally flawed. They are >> great. >> They are just, in my opinion and measurements, not the best. > > Of course, a lot of the issue resides with the definition of *best*. > Bill has found that in his environment, the algorithms used by chrony > preform better than those used by NTP. He has empirical data to back > this up. He also believes that his environment is fairly typical, which > is his opinion and more speculative. So for him, NTP's algorithms are > not the *best*. > > My recent experiments show that the same algorithms that are great in > NTP for the long haul, actually hinder its ability to get the offset and > frequency right under many typical startup conditions. Dr. Mills isn't > really interested in fixing this, not because he denies it, but because > he doesn't think it is the best area for his labors. He is more > interested in the long-haul.
This may be a problem for those who reboot their systems daily (or more frequently). My NTP server has an uptime of 121 days at the moment. I expect that it will remain up until the next time the power goes out for longer than the run time of my UPS. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
