Hi all,
I've been reading around in the faq's at ntp.org and various pages
googling around and cannot find obvious answers to these questions.
It is my understanding that NTP is continuously making small changes to
the software clock to keep the timing accurate while the os is running.
95% of the time, my computers are doing the same thing and 95% of the
time, I'm doing the same thing with the computers. Therefore, over a
long time interval, the interrupt usage should be similar, and over a
long time interval, the correct clock frequency to maintain accuracy
should be similar.
So, what I want to do is figure out what the average frequency to keep
accurate time is over say a week or month. I then want to fix the
frequency at that level and leave it there. Then, under normal
conditions, the clock should drift very little on average. If certain
usage conditions, say transcoding a movie, make the clock drift more
rapidly, I want it to step the time or slew it for that occasion, but
not to alter the long term correction factor at all. That way, when my
usage patterns return to normal, the drift should again return to a very
slow rate.
I also would like to understand how ntp interacts with the Real Time
Clock. I think I've read that either NTP or the OS (I don't know which)
will save the time to the RTC when shutting down and retrieve the time
from the RTC when booting up. I'd like to know if this is true, first
of all, and I'd like to know if it makes any corrections to the clock
rate of the RTC so it is more accurate.
Any help is appreciated.
Sincerely,
Ron
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