>And if it is the frequency that is out ( as it always will be these days of
>linux because of the bugs in the kernel frequency standardisation) then
>that one step will not kick in until about an hour later ( and the system
>could die a horrible death, because the phase offset intially is corrected
>and if the freq is off by enough, the clock will rapidly diverge until it
>is out by 128ms again, and ntp will die).

I'm missing something.  My setup doesn't die.  It just steps the clock,
and repeats the drift-off then step dance several times until the drift
gets close enough.


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