Richard B. Gilbert wrote: [] > I'm not here to make people feel good! No comment!
> I've checked the hardware available to me and none is worse than 50 > PPM. That's two PC's running Windows XP, three Sun Ultra 10 > Workstations running Solaris 8, 9, and 10, two DEC Alpha workstations > running VMS. Thanks for that. Possibly, on the PCs are representative of the hardware class I'm considering. > The specifications for NTPD say that it will correct errors less than > or equal to 500 PPM. Hence the title of this thread. > I beleive that hardware outside of this limit can properly be > described as broken! Would *you* tolerate a clock, computer or wall, > that gained or lost more then 43 seconds per day? Our forefathers, > limited to springs, gears and pendulums could do better than that. As I hope I mentioned earlier, it may not be hardware, but some BIOS or OS power-saving scheme, or something else I've overlooked, which is stopping NTP from working. I am trying to get more details. I do completely agree that a clock with 43s per day error would be one I would reject! All the non-radio and non-NTP clocks here do better than that. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
