All,
 I've come across aan interesting problem I'm hoping someone has seen

I have the following in a development environment:
1)T2000 - 8 core, 32GB RAM
2)T5120 - 8 core, 32GB RAM
3)Symmetricom S250 GPS NTP Server

Both the T2k & 5120 are built off the same jumpstart images (solaris 08/07) 
with ~ 4 ldoms each.  Each LDOM is configured with 4CPUs and 2 GB RAM. We are 
running ntp client version 4.2.4 downloaded from sunfreeware.com.  LDOM level 
is 1.0.1 currently

Each LDOM on both machines is running the same ntp.conf file:
server <ip> minpoll 4 maxpoll 4 prefer
driftfile /var/ntp/ntp.drift

While I know this wouldn't be ideal in a large deployment, the fact that I have 
a private DNS stratum 1 server and few clients allows me to set the time 
polling fairly tight.

Here is the interesting part:
Results of ntpq -c peers

5120:
delay    offset    disp
.061      37.037    0.12

T2000:
delay    offset    disp
.062      .04        0.14

Why am I getting such disparate results in offset?  The project I'm developing 
this for has very strict timing requirements that the T2000 seems to meet (< 
10ms accuracy) that the newer 5120 doesn't meet.  Has anyone seen something 
similar?  Right now this is pointing at a hardware issue, but I want to 
eliminate the ldom code as a problem

Thanks,
 Greer
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