On Nov 15, 2010, at 12:29 PM, SteveW wrote: > With the default step threshold of 128 ms, if a machine's time is > within 128 ms of the ntp server's time, when it syncs with the server, > will it exit from ntpd -g -q without stepping the clock?
That should be the case. If the offset is less than 128ms, it should invoke adjtime() to slew the clock instead of stepping it via settimeofday() / clock_settime(). > This appears to be the behavior I am seeing. I tried setting the > clock on my machine off by 110 msec from the ntp server and it didn't > step the clock. When I set it off by 220 msec it did step it. That sounds right. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
