On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 05:30:22AM +0000, Dave Hart wrote: > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 05:14 UTC, David L. Mills <mi...@udel.edu> wrote: > > At this point I am prepared to > > abandon the mission entirely, as I don't want to get bogged down with the > > specifics of each idiosyncratic operating system. Accordingly, I will back > > out all the changes and revert to the bad old ugly algorithms. > > That is disappointing but I understand your frustration. I was hoping > the remainder returned by adjtime() would allow ntpd to know exactly > how much the OS had in fact slewed the clock, adapting to differing > adjtime() implementations.
Or clamp the adjustment to 500 microseconds so there is no leftover. Or disable the fast phase correction when started without drift file. Ditching a very useful feature just because Solaris slews faster than 500 ppm seems a bit excessive to me. -- Miroslav Lichvar _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
