Unruh wrote: [] >> As I have maxpoll set to 6, I would have expected entries no more >> than 64s apart. What am I failing to understand here? The poll >> values reported in ntpq -p are 64, 64 and 1024 - as expected. > > You are forgetting that ntp throws away 7/8 of the stuff it collects. > (This is in an attempt to counter round trip biases). > Thus you would expect to have 8 times the max poll interval between > loopstats. (it is random so it is not always exactly 8 times sometimes > less, but never more, but it averages out to pretty close to 8 times.)
Thanks for that, Bill. With the servers with a GPS directly attached, I typically get 5400 lines in the log file, for a 16s polling interval. That's one line per poll, not one line per approximately eight polls. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
