In article <[email protected]>,
David Woolley  <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 02/12/14 01:59, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> At the same time, we want drift less than 1 second. However, over
>
>Drift is a pure number.  If you ever get a time error of more than 
>100ms, ntpd is in severe distress.

On a computer with a blocked fan, thermal limits kick in and slow the
world down.  When this happens ntp cannot cope, and refuses to even
try and keep any sync.  Result, no sync what-so-ever.  :-( A nicer
failure mode would be to just sync time once every 1024 seconds.  Not
pretty, but, better than nothing.

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