On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 06:16:06PM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> > Is this going to run into problems with ntpd's Kill signal, thinking that 
> > your
> > machine is flooding the server (or is the current behaviour of chrony 
> > already
> > in danger of that anyway)?
> 
> It should be ok. The 0.2s separation is to limit the rate of our
> requests to all configured servers, so we don't clog our link. For
> individual servers the spacing still follows the polling interval in
> normal mode and 2s interval in burst mode.

I forgot about the initstepslew directive, it's a separate NTP client
in chrony, it doesn't follow any minimal spacing and will trigger
the Kiss-of-Death response.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar

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