David Lord wrote: [] > I only have a pair of servers as peer and that is maxpoll 8 and > both sat at 256 sec. Offsets are 203us and 593us.
I see more like 1-3ms for the Internet servers (compared to the GPS), with delays in the order of 30ms. This is with Windows, though, not a UNIX system. > I have problems with the larger maxpoll value as temperature > changes are sometimes at a higher rate than ntpd can compensate > for but this affects the pcs differently and having peers with > lower maxpoll might help. Otherwise the higher maxpoll does > seem to tend to give lower offset variation and jitter. So far > this year I've not had temperature in back room shoot from 15C > to near 30C as happened on a couple of days last year. > > David Yes, it's the classic trade-off - high precision requires a long time-constant, but that means a poorer response to temperature changes. You have to decide when you have it "good enough", otherwise you will be tinkering for life! Cheers, David _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
