David Woolley wrote: > Gautam Thaker wrote: >> I have a stable drift value on my fedora 12 node and everything is >> running well. (offsets are well below 1msec). If I now stop 'ntpd' >> will my time start to drift relative to the 'correct time' by the PPM >> value in the drift file? Or is it that ntpd has already set things up > > Depends on whether or not you are using the kernel time discipline. > Some people set tinker values that cause the kernel discipline to be > turned off, and it is not supported on all platforms. > > Windows will probably retain the last correction, but this may include a > high frequency component.
AFAIK the Windows port of ntpd restores the standard tick value when it terminates, so the drift compensation isn't in effect anymore thereafter. Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
