On Feb 26, 2008, at 14:26, Michael Rathbun wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:27:09 -0500 (EST), der Mouse
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>     (Yet - if it's drifting, it'll get worse.  But it'll also get
>> thrown out.)
>
> Perhaps not.
>
> I observe that the monitoring system seems to penalize only for  
> positive
> offsets >100 ms.  The offset of the server under discussion recently
> jumped from 316 ms to 66 ms to -154 ms, but the score started to
> increase when the offset dropped below +100.
>
> Perhaps the code needs a fabs() call somewhere.


No, the code should be converting it to an absolute offset.

"-2 * $offset_abs + 1" is, currently, the calculation that kicks in  
when the offset is more than 0.075 seconds.  Yes, maybe it should be  
more aggressive.


   - ask

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