Tim Shoppa wrote:
"David J Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's where one system is grossly different to all the rest. Suppose
that you had 10 server. Your offsets with 9 servers are in the
range -0.1s to +0.1s, but one server shows an offset of 0.9s. It
would be the "outlier" - something which lies outside the rest.
"Yeahbut" - NTP is particularly aggressive about marking servers
as outliers, especially when it has a large number of servers to
choose from. It can afford to be picky. It's usually not worth
getting worked up about an outlier or two as being a bad server.
In most (but not all!) cases transient outliers are the result
of variable network latency.
Tim.
Tim,
I was under the impression that the OP was asking about the English
language definition of outlier (particularly as it was mis-spelt), and I
answered accordingly.
You clarification of the usage in the context of NTP is appreciated.
David
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