ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) writes:

>Dave Hart wrote:
>> Take 2:
>> 
>> On Jan 28, 11:52 pm, Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no">
>> wrote:
>>> I've installed your version, and included -M in my startup parameters:
>>>
>>> I get Event Log (Application) messages about stuff like:
>>>
>>> System time quantum 1.000 msec, min. slew 6.410 ppm/s
>> 
>> Notice the observed quantum 1 msec is less than the threshold I
>> mentioned, so interpolation is disabled.  You'll also notice a
>> precision = 1000.0 usec log line, where with interpolation that number
>> is much less than 1000.  Your system should keep better time than it
>> did with stock ntpd.  If you can avoid any program that changes
>> multimedia timers, you would probably get more precise ntpd
>> timekeeping without -M, allowing interpolation to be used, however any
>> MM timer use and the interpolation will perform very badly.
>> 
>>> Clock interrupt period 15.600 msec (startup slew 0.1 usec/period)
>>> Performance counter frequency 14.318 MHz
>>> MM timer resolution: 1..1000000 msec, set to 1 msec
>>> ntpd 4.2....@dlh-qpc-o Jan 28 6:47:59.16 (UTC-08:00) 2009  (51)
>>>
>>> which seems to me to indicate that your code is indeed running, but I
>>> don't get any 'filtered... QPC' messages at all?
>> 
>> Yeah, that's part of the interpolation.  If you want to see them,
>> leave off -M (and avoid Flash, Quicktime, etc).
>> 

>If you are going to do this you MUST take account of Flash, Quicktime
>and other multimedia otherwise it's not an acceptable solution.
>Stability and accuracy of the clock are extremely important otherwise we
>wouldn't be using ntp.

If they are important, why are you using windows?

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