On 2011-09-21, Harlan Stenn <[email protected]> wrote: > Bill wrote: >> Some operating systems (eg Linux) have the ability to do a much faster >> than 500PPM rate change (100000PPM in the case of Linux) but ntp does >> not make use of that. > > ... because it would violate the assumptions and rules about the loop > behavior (I'm painting with a wide brush here). If you want a system
? But that 500PPM was an arbitrary and random value chosed X years ago. > that is designed to work with a faster slew rate that's fine, but then > you also have to consider legacy and interoperability issues. sure. But what legacy issues do you have in mind? > > It also goes to timestamp correlation issues. It would seem to me that a step (infinite PPM) would be far far worse. ntpd does NOT limit the slew rate to 500PPM. It limits it to infinite PPM. > > H _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
