On Thursday 25 October 2007, Dennis Hilberg, Jr. wrote: > Chuck wrote: > > i have read several places to use many servers in my servers listings.. i > > presently have 12. is there a practical limit where after ntp only gets > > sluggish and the extra servers dont really help it? i figured an 'even dozen' > > should be a good round number :) > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I remember reading somewhere that > ntpd will only make use of 10 servers max at one time, regardless of how > many are specified in the ntp.conf. > > I have five in each of my ntp.conf files. > they all show up and it polls them all and over time it has chosen each of them for some period. i suppose i really should cut it back to 6 or 7....
> -- > Dennis Hilberg, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > NTP Server Information: http://saturn.dennishilberg.com/ntp.php > _______________________________________________ > timekeepers mailing list > [email protected] > https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers > -- Chuck "...and the hordes of M$*ft users descended upon me in their anger, and asked 'Why do you not get the viruses or the BlueScreensOfDeath or insecure system troubles and slowness or pay through the nose for an OS as *we* do?!!', and I answered...'I use Linux'. " The Book of John, chapter 1, page 1, and end of book _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
