Ok thanks for all the comments.

Regards.

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > > Ok thank you for the answer:
>  >  >
>  >  > I see this value with:
>  >  >
>  >  > ntpq> peers  (or with xntpdc>)
>  >  >
>  >  > This shows me the poll intervals as seconds  but I
>  >  > couldn't able to
>  >  > find to change poll interval at /etc/inet/ntp.conf.
>  >  > How can I change
>  >  > polling intervals in ntpd.conf?
>  >  >
>  >  > Regars and thanks in advance.
>  >
>  >  You probably shouldn't - the defaults are there for a reason - they should
>  >  be good enough for anything but extraordinary conditions; lower would
>  >  be too much overhead, higher might allow too much drift, and narrower
>  >  bounds between minimum and maximum would leave less freedom to adapt
>  >  sensibly.
>
>  I track my servers ntpstats all the time :
>
>     http://www.blastwave.org/ntpstats/index.html
>
>  The only time I see fly away strange data is after a reboot. There
>  seems to be an automatic loss on Sparc machines of about 16 seconds or
>  so.  Late yesterday I had a bit of a network burb and that caused some
>  bumps in the data that you see there.
>
>  My advice is to leave ntp alone once you set it up. It works. Don't fix it.
>
>  Dennis Clarke
>
>
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