Re: [chrony-dev] Time for a release?

2010-11-25 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 07:18:30PM +, Ed W wrote: > On 07/10/2010 16:17, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > >My chrony todo list keeps growing, but I have now only two major > >things I'd like to see in the next release: > >- improve the code which adjusts the polling interval between > > minpoll and

Re: [chrony-dev] Time for a release?

2010-11-24 Thread Ed W
On 07/10/2010 16:17, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:30:46PM +0100, Ed W wrote: Do you think that we could see a release at some imminent point? I do realise that there is a git repo, but for various reasons it's easier to build packages from tarballs. Seems like it's

Re: [chrony-dev] Time for a release?

2010-10-14 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:27:56PM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > The most promising idea I came up so far is to adjust the interval > based on number of samples kept in sourcestats, so it remains close to > a fixed number. This would be configurable, a higher value would mean > chrony should

Re: [chrony-dev] Time for a release?

2010-10-07 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:36:19AM -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: > As far as I could see, ntpd tends to race for long intervals and stick there. > There seems to be an idea that network resources are prcious and should be > used as little as possible. Yes, with low-mid jitters it sometimes goes with

Re: [chrony-dev] Time for a release?

2010-10-07 Thread Ed W
There seems to be an idea that network resources are prcious and should be used as little as possible. Since nowadays, network resources ( unless you in a sattelite in orbit) are essentially free, I desire to use chronyd in conjunction with an intermittently connected satellite system.

Re: [chrony-dev] Time for a release?

2010-10-07 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 05:03:28PM +0100, Ed W wrote: > On 07/10/2010 16:17, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > > > >BTW, is anyone here keeping up to date with git and testing? > > > > For various (not relevant) reasons it would be a lot easier for me > to bump my gentoo ebuild to use a named tarball

Re: [chrony-dev] Time for a release?

2010-10-07 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 09:02:56AM -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: > >- improve the code which adjusts the polling interval between > > minpoll and maxpoll, the current one seems to work quite badly > > In what sense "badly"? I looked at it for a while, but did not see how one of > the other choice

Re: [chrony-dev] Time for a release?

2010-10-07 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:30:46PM +0100, Ed W wrote: > Do you think that we could see a release at some imminent point? > > I do realise that there is a git repo, but for various reasons it's > easier to build packages from tarballs. Seems like it's been a > while since the last big lump of

Re: [chrony-dev] Time for a release?

2010-10-07 Thread Ed W
On 07/10/2010 16:17, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: BTW, is anyone here keeping up to date with git and testing? For various (not relevant) reasons it would be a lot easier for me to bump my gentoo ebuild to use a named tarball (and test git) than to pull from git. How about cutting a "beta"

[chrony-dev] Time for a release?

2010-10-07 Thread Ed W
Do you think that we could see a release at some imminent point? I do realise that there is a git repo, but for various reasons it's easier to build packages from tarballs. Seems like it's been a while since the last big lump of progress so would be nice to get it out to the distros?

Re: [chrony-dev] Time for a release?

2010-10-07 Thread Bill Unruh
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 09:02:56AM -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: - improve the code which adjusts the polling interval between minpoll and maxpoll, the current one seems to work quite badly In what sense "badly"? I looked at it for a while, but did not

Re: [chrony-dev] Time for a release?

2010-10-07 Thread Bill Unruh
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:30:46PM +0100, Ed W wrote: Do you think that we could see a release at some imminent point? I do realise that there is a git repo, but for various reasons it's easier to build packages from tarballs. Seems like it's been