unruh wrote:
On 2013-05-14, David Woolley <[email protected]> wrote:
Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

NTPD is NOT designed for fast convergence. From start up to get the minutes correct, NTPD will need about thirty minutes! To get the best time you are going to get, you will need to wait for about ten hours!

Convergence to within 128ms should take a lot less than that. With iburst, I believe it should be less than one minute.

Since ntpd steps ( changes the rate by an infinite slope) if the time is
out by 128 ms, yes, convergence IS faster than that. ( however it has to
make sure that the clock really is out by that much and that takes a few
cycles of clock querrying).

For a ms accuracy your could expect a couple of hours. for 10
microsecond, about 10 hr.


Hi

I posted a reply on May 11, but did not give the ntpq stats
as they'd already been archived away.

After three reboots to replace kernel and userland taking
around 10-15 minutes 'ntpq -p' with polling at 6 minutes gave
the following:

   min  reach   offset   jitter

   -18    377   -0.001    0.004
   -12    377    0.007    0.007
    -6    377   -0.001    0.006
     0      0    0.000    0.000
     6     17   -0.036  275.881
    12    377    0.126    0.125
    18    377    0.173    0.049
    24    377    0.047    0.092
    30    377    0.007    0.028
    36    377   -0.001    0.007
    42    377   -0.001    0.004

There was a well established ntp.drift file and my rc.conf starts
ntpd with flags="-g -N -p /var/run/ntpd.pid"

NetBSD/6.1_RC3
ntpd 4.2.6p5-o
PPS from Sure demo board


David

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