Re: [ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-16 Thread Lars Ericsson
Hi All, Thanks for your efforts trying to help me with this issue. I understand that the reason for ntp to adjust with a sudden jumps may be many. Some of them may be possible to prevent some others not. My problem is that it MUST NOT JUMP. I'm currently running a few tests, trying to verify

Re: [ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-14 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 04:49:37PM -0500, Hal Murray wrote: The problem is that the adjustment takes to large steps, not that it takes to long time. ntpd will slew the clock at 500 PPM. You may be willing to wait a while for a second or two, but it takes a long time if you have to

Re: [ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-14 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:51:46PM +0100, David Woolley wrote: Hal Murray wrote: OK. I asked since a timewarp of 200ms is a bit surprising for real HW, but is something to be expected if you were running in a VM. It's easy to get a time-warp of 200 ms on a DSL link. Just download a huge

Re: [ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-14 Thread Harlan Stenn
Bill wrote: On 2011-07-12, Lars Ericsson laeatw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have been running the ntp client on a Linux platform for some time and have not seen any problems. I recently run into a strange behavior where our communication software failed on some critical timeouts.

Re: [ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-14 Thread Harlan Stenn
The following is an example from ntpd.log 14 Apr 07:22:25 ntpd[1048]: synchronized to 10.0.0.5, stratum 1 14 Apr 07:22:25 ntpd[1048]: time reset +0.231004 s 14 Apr 07:23:35 ntpd[1048]: synchronized to 10.0.0.5, stratum 1 14 Apr 07:39:33 ntpd[1048]: time reset +0.318457 s 14 Apr 07:39:33

[ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-13 Thread Lars Ericsson
Hi all, I have been running the ntp client on a Linux platform for some time and have not seen any problems. I recently run into a strange behavior where our communication software failed on some critical timeouts. After some investigation we found out the the system time suddenly made a jump

Re: [ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-13 Thread unruh
On 2011-07-12, Lars Ericsson laeatw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have been running the ntp client on a Linux platform for some time and have not seen any problems. I recently run into a strange behavior where our communication software failed on some critical timeouts. After some

Re: [ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-13 Thread Lars Ericsson
Thanks for the reply. I recently run into a strange behavior where our communication software failed on some critical timeouts. After some investigation we found out the the system time suddenly made a jump with 200ms. Yup. ntpd makes huge statements about the importance of keeping things

Re: [ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-13 Thread Hal Murray
The problem is that the adjustment takes to large steps, not that it takes to long time. ntpd will slew the clock at 500 PPM. You may be willing to wait a while for a second or two, but it takes a long time if you have to adjust by several minutes or an hour. That may be OK for your setup,

Re: [ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-13 Thread David Woolley
Hal Murray wrote: OK. I asked since a timewarp of 200ms is a bit surprising for real HW, but is something to be expected if you were running in a VM. It's easy to get a time-warp of 200 ms on a DSL link. Just download a huge file, say a CD. The queuing delay on the input to the DSL link

Re: [ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 13, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Hal Murray wrote: OK. I asked since a timewarp of 200ms is a bit surprising for real HW, but is something to be expected if you were running in a VM. It's easy to get a time-warp of 200 ms on a DSL link. Just download a huge file, say a CD. The queuing delay

Re: [ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-13 Thread Hal Murray
The following is an example from ntpd.log 14 Apr 07:22:25 ntpd[1048]: synchronized to 10.0.0.5, stratum 1 14 Apr 07:22:25 ntpd[1048]: time reset +0.231004 s 14 Apr 07:23:35 ntpd[1048]: synchronized to 10.0.0.5, stratum 1 14 Apr 07:39:33 ntpd[1048]: time reset +0.318457 s 14 Apr 07:39:33

Re: [ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-13 Thread Rick Jones
David Woolley david@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote: Hal Murray wrote: OK. I asked since a timewarp of 200ms is a bit surprising for real HW, but is something to be expected if you were running in a VM. It's easy to get a time-warp of 200 ms on a DSL link. Just download a huge