On 2011-09-28, David J Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> "NTP Public Services Project" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
> news:[email protected]...
>> Redwood City, CA - 2011/09/23 - The NTP Public Services Project
>> (http://support.ntp.org/) is pleased to announce that NTP 4.2.6p4,
>> a Point Release of the NTP Reference Implementation from the
>> NTP Project, is now available at http://www.ntp.org/downloads.html and
>> http://support.ntp.org/download.
> []
>> ntpd
>>
>> * Added the NTPD_TICKADJ_PPM environment variable for specifying 
>> baseline
>>  clock slew on Microsoft Windows
>
> Does NTPD_TICKADJ_PPM allow the use of clocks which are more than 500 ppm 
> out?  Sorry if I missed any earlier discussion on this (and I don't run 
> Linux).  How does one go about determining the value to set - just 
> guesswork?
>
> I'm interested because someone has just reported problems with NTP on a 
> system which gain (or loses) 1 second in 10 minutes!  1 part on 600!  This 
> adjustment could be most helpful.

Is he using a virtual system? Is that loss constant ( or is it sometimes
1 sec, sometimes 3 sec sometimes nothing). He is eitehr running a
virtual machine, in which case he should not be using ntpd, or his
operating system is doing an attrocious job of setting the system time
rate of his clock. 

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