On Wed Aug 27 2025, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 02:59:12PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> The benchmark is about > 1k packets/ second while in reality you have
>> less than 20 packets a second.
>
> I don't want to argue about which use case is more important, but it's
> normal for NTP servers to receive requests at much higher rates than
> that. In some countries, public servers get hundreds of thousands of
> packets per second. A server in a local network may have clients
> polling 128 times per second each.
>
> Anyway, if anyone is still interested in finding out the cause of
> the regression, there is a thing I forgot to mention for the
> reproducer using ntpperf. chronyd needs to be configured with a larger
> clientloglimit (e.g. clientloglimit 100000000), otherwise it won't be
> able to respond to the large number of clients in interleaved mode
> with a HW TX timestamp.

Yeah, I realized that myself while testing :). The default
clientloglimit is too low.

Thanks,
Kurt

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