In message <[email protected]>, Harlan Stenn writes: >You wrote:
>> I would _never_ advice configuring more than 5 ntp servers for any >> machine, unless some of them deliberately are made unavailable and >> only used for monitoring/sanity-check. > >Sounds like a bug to me. It is. The problem is that if multiple servers with roughly identical performance survive the culling, the clock selection codes commitment-anxiety makes i switch partner far too often. If you allow the automatic poll-rate tweaker into the game, instead of sensibly clamping maxpoll, it gets even more interesting. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
