Karel Sandler wrote:
For what it's worth, I plot the average number of clients and number of requests per second for my S2 server (which is in the global pool) at http://www.febo.com/time-freq/ntp/stats/clients/index.html. The data comes from Wayne Schlitt's ntp_scripts package. My average requests/second hovers a little below 10, with spikes from 80 to 100 for the hours when I'm in the DNS. My average number of clients runs from 2000-2500, with spikes up beyond 5000 when I'm in the DNS.
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What is the averaging time for your rps values? Sometimes you can get say 6000 requests per minute although 1500 of them arrived at one single second. For such a case even xx/1 Mbps line is slow, any packets get an asymmetric delay. Of course, this is not a problem for any ntpd client with a good configuration.
I don't know for sure; my crontab runs the script that updates the logfile every 15 minutes, but I'm not sure how the value that ges logged is created (Wayne's scripts use tcpdump to analyze the traffic flow; I haven't dug into just how he parses the data).
And by the way, I'm on a 6mb/768kb "business class" cable modem. John _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
