On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 03:47, A C <[email protected]> wrote: > The latest version is now compiled and running. I'll let it go and see what > happens over the next week. Just as a point of reference, the system has > been without ntpd (or any other clock discipline) for about three days and > the clock was only off by about 1 millisecond when I started ntpd up again. > So it would appear that the system oscillator is reasonably stable and I > don't have to be as concerned that it's doing something strange to cause the > multi-second jumps.
Agreed. Assuming the IPX is using the typical crystal oscillator and not something temperature-controlled or compensated, it also indicates that crystal has had remarkably stable temperatures over those three days, and that the last run of ntpd ended with a well-honed frequency correction for it to freewheel so accurately. Cheers, Dave Hart _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
