I downloaded the latest prebuilt binary from Meinberg (4.2.4p4)and
installed on XP Service Pack 3. NTPD was not only completely unable to
keep the clock in synch but actually made things far worse with time
drifiting backwards by up to a second every few minutes and NTPD
continually stepping the clock forward with the "exceeds 500ppm message".
I then downloaded the pre-built 4.2.6 from Dave Harrt's site and it did
exactly the same. Then I tried turning off the "-M" option and
restarting (both versions). The clock quickly achieved synch to within a
few milliseconds. The drift frequency was calculated at 4.764 (rather
than above 500) and the jitter reduced to a few milliseconds. Now when I
run certain applications the clock jumps by a few millseconds (which the
-M option is supposed to cure but I can live with this under windows)
but my question is why is NTPD broken in my environment when installed
withe the default Meinberg installation option of setting the timer to
highest resolution? Anyone else seen this?
This on a dual core AMD-64 with WIndows XP Professional fully patched.
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