Peter,
This is my understanding.
The Stratum of a timeserver is the proximity (hops) to an atomic clock
source. So a Stratum 1 time server would actually be using a time source
driven by an Atomic Clock ( 1 hop away). The UofT Stratum 1 server uses
a GPS source (which is driven by the US Naval Observatory Master Clocks
in Washington, DC and Colorado Springs, CO) and NRC has an actual Atomic
clock. Usually you can't get access to the Stratum 1 servers. The
Stratum 2 servers set their clocks from the Stratum 1 servers. So
technically if you have a ntpd setting from a Stratum 2 server, yours
would be a Stratum 3 ( hops from Atomic source ).
More info: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/
Mike
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Thanks again Mike. But the best part is that with the kids arguing over what time it was last night
and the clicker disappearing AGAIN, the wife discovered she could dial *60 and find out
how close to bed time it is! Gotta love those handy features.
The processor on my dual CPU seems to be particularly flakey. Hmmm....maybe I should
sync to the OpenBSD firewall. It seemed easier to set up ntpd again on the * server.
Probably better in the long run anyway. What's a Stratum 2 time server, for those of us not
in the know? I usually use time.nrc.ca.
Peter M.
Peter,
System clocks are always pretty flakey. On all my machines I set up ntpdate to run every 6 hours.
Even on my best machine it will adjust the clock usually .7-1.1 seconds every time it synchs and
the bad systems 5-12 seconds. My main ntpd server I synch every hour from one of the u of t ntp
servers which are Stratum2 time servers.
Mike
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Thanks, dude. Excellent information on this list, as per usual. Now if I could
just get the clock on the motherboard fixed. Seems like its losing its settings
a lot but the battery looks OK. I think I have ntpd working OK in its place.
Peter M.
There are definite benefits to a dual/multi CPU machine. The actual asterisk program isn't multi
threaded so it won't utilize more then one but, when other processes kick off like transcoding,
festival, comedian the OS will utilize the other CPU(s) to distribute the load. SO there is a definite
benefit just not as much as one would totally want.
The only time there is no benefit is when you have no transcoding and only the core asterisk
process running. But this is highly unusual.
Mike
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So running [EMAIL PROTECTED] on a dual processor P2 333 system is still a waste of
processing power? CentOS does recognize both processors and loads the
SMP kernel. Is there any benefit at all?
Peter M.
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