Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second bug?

2008-01-05 Thread Unruh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Woolley) writes: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> and the time required to timestamp that packet is about another 2usec, with >> fluctuations depending on whether other interrupts are being serviced. >On both Linux and Windows, interr

Re: [ntp:questions] Distribution security

2008-01-05 Thread Hal Murray
>When I wrote that I was unaware of the html page. I'm a Unix guy and I >generally don't even consider looking for html docs - I am used to (and >expect) man pages. Me too. Would it help to ship dummy man pages that just pointed to the html documentation? -- These are my opinions, not necessa

Re: [ntp:questions] quirky adjtimex behaviour

2008-01-05 Thread Hal Murray
>I am seeing strange behaviour on my _x86_64 Fedora 7 desktop >workstation with regard to the "system-cmos" time that `adjtimex' >reports. >That leaves the RTC doing the jumping. But having an RTC that is >runing nearly 1 ppm slower than my system clock and which "jumps >ahead" every 10 seco

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp documentation

2008-01-05 Thread Unruh
"Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Unruh wrote: >> "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>>Unruh wrote: >>> "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Unruh wrote: > > >>Where is there ntp documentation? For example I wan

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp documentation

2008-01-05 Thread Unruh
"Dennis Hilberg, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Unruh wrote: >> "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Unruh wrote: Where is there ntp documentation? For example I wanted to have ntp write out the statistics on its peers etc. I looked everywhere-- man page of n

Re: [ntp:questions] The smallest possible ntpd, unoptimized

2008-01-05 Thread Uwe Klein
Pierre Dubuc wrote: > It seems -O0 is needed, at least for building the daemon, on NetBSD-i386 > on a 486SX. > > Case closed for me. > did you try the 386 specific flag: -msoft-float uwe ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://list

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp documentation

2008-01-05 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2008-01-05, Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I guess daily is the default if you just use the statistics > peerstats But the key question is where in the world is the > documentation for all of this? http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/monopt.html Since you know the site where the

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp documentation

2008-01-05 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Unruh wrote: > "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Unruh wrote: >> >>>"Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> >>> Unruh wrote: >Where is there ntp documentation? For example I wanted to have ntp write >out the statistics on its peers etc.

Re: [ntp:questions] quirky adjtimex behaviour

2008-01-05 Thread Jan Ceuleers
Hi Dean. Dean S. Messing wrote: >> Can I however suggest that you first try and eliminate CPU frequency >> scaling as a cause of the symptoms you're seeing: use cpufreq-set -g to >> select a policy that results in a constant CPU frequency and then check >> if this changes the behaviour (or rend

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second bug?

2008-01-05 Thread David Malone
"David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >The intended behavior if the servers do correctly signal a leap and the >kernel is unaware of that, is that the step interval will be exceeded >for about 15 minutes and then the time will be stepped. During that >interval your clock will appear one

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp documentation

2008-01-05 Thread Dennis Hilberg, Jr.
Unruh wrote: > "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Unruh wrote: >>> Where is there ntp documentation? For example I wanted to have ntp write >>> out the statistics on its peers etc. I looked everywhere-- man page of >>> ntp, ntp.conf, etc, and finally discovered by looking at th

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp documentation

2008-01-05 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: > "Dennis Hilberg, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [] >> The official NTP docs are in html format only. > > And impossible to wade through. Could you tell me where the > statistics and the peerstats directives are actually discussed? > Trying to look at those docs gives me no hint. >

[ntp:questions] Taming statistics files (was: Re: ntp documentation)

2008-01-05 Thread David J Taylor
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: [] > filegen creates a new file daily or weekly or monthly. . . . > These files can eat many megabytes of disk space if you let them. If > you're not prepared to analyze and summarize all the data, do > yourself a favor and skip creating the files. The tools to do so are