>1) When the operating conditions suddenly change, the system diverges
>dramatically, and sometimes becomes unstable/divergent.  In particular, a
>pathological case we have seen is when the wireless link is near saturation
>for an extended period of time such as when copying over multi-gigabyte log
>files over the course of several hours.  Once the transfer completes and the
>wireless link opens up again, the delay time across the wireless link
>plummets, the local server immediately diverges from the external server by
>around 30 ms.  After this initial divergence, the local server stops
>qualifying as a good source of time, and the remaining 3 machines start
>drifting apart in independent directions.

The huffpuff filter will probably help with this problem.  It's one
the tinker options.

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