paul <[email protected]> writes: > Hi All, I'm new to NTP, glad to meet you here. > > I did some experiments to test NTP performance on WINNT. In an > isolated network, two machines are inter connnected with a switcher. > Machine A is configure as a stratum 12 NTP server, using lcl as > reference clock; machine B is sychronized to machine A. Then, 'ntpq - > p' is performed on machine B every 16 seconds. The output of ntpq is > cooked by a python script and offset field is recorded to log file. > After about 2 hours, I check the log file and found the offset value > is 4 ~ 8 ms. Is this normal? I mean if things are properly done, how > small the offset I can expect? Thanks.
For a HP DL380G5 running Windows/2003 Server R2 I see about 1ms and 3ms with a stability of 0.008 and 0.004, respectively. However those machine are doing monitoring tasks with not interactive users and a light load. Regards, Ulrich > > The OS is Windows XP Pro SP3 and NTP software is 4.2.4-p7 from > mainberg. > http://www.meinberg.de/download/ntp/windows/[email protected] _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
