Ry wrote: > How often are these boxes restarted? NTP seems to take a 8 hours or > more to really "settle". If you're rebooting the Windows machines > frequently (and you *should* be at least once per month to get MS > security patches),
Why? There is very rarely a need to reboot a Windows machine. 99% of all hotfixes should not require a reboot. I probably reboot once every 3 months. Only badly written installers require reboots. NTP will always perform worse in comparison with a > Linux box that is always on. > Most people running NTP on Windows would disagree with you. > If your hardware has any power-management features enabled (Intel > SpeedStep, AMD CoolNQuiet, etc.), that would do it. Others may have > mentioned disabling ACPI in the BIOS, but you will also want to > checkDevice Manager to make sure you don't have speed-throttling "CPU > drivers" or other "system devices" installed or activated. > That's almost unavoidable and is not just Windows. > Finally, the WinXP firewall or other software firewall could be adding > small delays if it is enabled and CPU utilization isn't genreally low. > So could any host-based intrustion prevention, anti-spyware, or > antivirus software that scans live network connectios for threats > (e.g.Symantec Client Security). Also make sure the multimedia timers > are enabled during setup of NTPd. > All systems have firewalls, routers, switches, etc. There's no real difference here. Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
