Just for interest, I've provided a performance snapshot of a recent NTP
running on Windows-8, with both Internet-only and LAN-based servers.
When running off just Internet (WAN) servers, Windows-8 shows an
averaged jitter of less than a millisecond, perhaps 0.4 - 0.6
millisecond after the initial transient has settled down. Windows-7, by
comparison, shows 3 - 9.5 milliseconds averaged jitter. Likely the
improvement is due to the use of the new precise-time instruction in
Windows-8, which is used by recent development releases of NTP.
When running off the LAN, averaged jitter is around 40-80 microseconds
in another Windows-8 system.
http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Win-8+Internet.html
There still remains an issue with Windows-8 and the resolution of the
timer adjustment, which allows fine adjustments and reports them back
(IIRC), but internally only makes coarser adjustments. Yes, these
results are not as good as you might expect with FreeBSD or Linux, but
it does seem that Windows-8 timekeeping is an improvement over Windows-7.
I hope that's of some interest.
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Cheers,
David
Web: http://www.satsignal.eu
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