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Jan Hoevers wrote:

> I happened to read the explanation of the score routine (tiny link below
> the graphs:
> http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/81.216.247.88#graph_explanation )
> just before your mail came in, and I believe the explanation is there.
> 
> The scoring algorithm gives penalties to servers with an offset of more
> than 100 millisec. Take a good look at the correlation between the score
> history and offset history graphs. Do you agree that this is what's
> happening?

Yes, I agree.

> You describe that your server is not trampoleening like this and you
> suspect the network path between the monitoring system and your server.
> I agree.
> The monitoring system (x3.develooper.com, 63.251.223.163) seems to be in
> Pasadena, California, and your server (81.216.247.88) looks like
> somewhere in Sweden.

Yes, my server is in Sweden.

> Now that's quite a network path. I'm playing around with ntp for some
> years now, and in my experience ntp works fine over long distance, as
> long as the delay is symmetric. Congestion is unlikely at night, but
> think of a transatlantic link taken out at nighttime for maintenance.
> Consequently there is nothing one can do, except carefully shrug...
> 
> This only demonstrates the limitations of monitoring over long distance.
> Well, that's in the explanation too.

I have been in the pool since almost the beginning and it's just the
last few weeks I have seen this behavior. This behavior also started
when I changed my hardware (my old hardware crashed and it took a while
to get the new hardware so my server was down for over a week) but since
I can't see the same behavior from an other ISP in Sweden so my
suspicion is a also congested link.

> By the way, I'm a newbie in the pool, I added my server (82.95.234.3)
> yesterday after reading this list for a few months, and I survived my
> first Turkish spike (175 kb/s) this afternoon around 15:00 UTC   :-)
> Hello pool members, nice to meet you! Looking forward to the good and
> bad things we will share.

/Tim
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