Greer Reichow wrote:
> 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

There are clock drifts on the systems that are greater than what NTP can 
handle. Came across this myself just last week.

There are /etc/system settings described in Change Request 6630235 based 
on CPU clock frequency.

I am looking for a public document that describes these.

Steffen

> Thanks,
>  Greer
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