Ulrich Windl <ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de> writes: >"Ray" <rayat...@hotmail.com> writes:
>> Hi All, >> >> I am running a new version of the NTP daemon, version 4.2.4p6, on a Linux >> machine with kenel version 2.6.27. >Hi! >I didn't investigate further, but I see the same effect, and I suspect >that there is a mismatch between the kernel interface and ntpd. I'm >running several instances of SLES10 SP2 here. Nope. ntp simply has very slow response to errors. Its time constant is a bit over an hour at poll level 6. (ie it decreases the error by about a factor of 2 every hour or so, but there is an overshoot at first.) >> >> When I start the daemon, the peer information shows that all the peer have a >> offset of about 30 milliseconds. This offset will increase to about 50 >> milliseconds after an hour. It might take many hour to days before the >> offset comes down to a few milliseconds. I tried using 'iburst' on the peers >> to see if this would speed things up, but it made no difference. >> >> Are there any settings to speed up this process? Is the a problem with this >> version of NTP? >I'd fiddle with "minpoll" ;-) >> >> Thanks, >> Ray >> --------------------- _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
