Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > Does this happen if NTP is shut down?  If your system clock is
> > jittery, NTP could be correcting the clock backwards periodically to
> > make up for it, which could cause the weirdness you're seeing...
> 
> Do the NTP implementations that come with various Linux distributions
> just move the clock backwards, or do they do "adjtime()"-style slowing
> of the clock to move it backwards slowly over time while keeping time
> stamps monotonically increasing?

It was always my impression that xntpd would slew the clock unless the
time was off by a certain non-trivial amount (and if it was off by much
more than that xntpd would punt). I am pretty sure those values are
much, much larger than the tenths of milliseconds shown in the example
trace.

rick jones
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