Nelson writes: > My stats have settled down now. Changing my netspeed from 1.5Mbps to > 100Mbps resulted in my traffic going from 15 reqs/second to 19 > reqs/second and my unique IPs / second (in a 10 minute window) to go > from about 3.8 to 4.2. Unless my analysis is wrong that suggests that > increasing my speed 60x resulted in only about 1.3x more traffic after > three days.
> I've got two explanations for that. A third explanation: 20 requests a second is less than 20kbits a second, so why should it matter much whether NTP traffic is using 1% or 0.01% of your network bandwidth when it's a tiny tiny percentage in either case? Of course, I'm proven wrong by the frequent postings here by people with configs that cannot deal with NTP traffic when it is just a few percentage points of total traffic. > Ryan Malayter wrote: >> Wouldn't it make sense to weight by a logarithmic or other sub-linear >> function of the netspeed instead? We surely wouldn't want a pool >> server with a gigabit connection receiving 667 times the traffic of a >> pool server behind a T1. >I'm incline to agree with that. And from all indications (I discovered I could dial my netspeed up and down too) that's the way it seems to work out. Drastic changes in the way you have your net speed dialed in only produce small incremental changes in the quantity of traffic. And that's a good thing. We want diversity of all kinds in the pool, don't we? (Or at least I do!) Tim. _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
