On 2013-12-07, Harlan Stenn <st...@ntp.org> wrote: > unruh writes: >> As I said, get chrony if you want much faster convergence, if you want >> better control of the time offset from UTC, and if yourun Linux or >> BSD. > > And this begs the question of "faster convergence towards *what*?"
UTC :-) > > NTP looks a a number of time sources, finds a majority clique that > exhibit "good" (consistent with respect to each other, as observed by > the local system) behavior, and steers the clock towards that time. So does chrony, except that it takes one of those (the one with the smallest spread I believe) as the representative. > > As I understand it, chrony steers the local clock towards the master > time source it is following. And it figures out which source it is following by looking at all of the sources it is following. > > Assuming this is all true (or true enough), there are times and > situations where one of these approaches is better than the other, and > other times and situations where the converse is true. Yes, but tests that both I and Lichvar have run show that chrony follows to much higher accuracy than does ntpd. > > H _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
