An alternative option would be to implement rereading ntp.conf.
For each line in ntp.conf, there are 3 possibilities. It's new or the value
has changed, nothing has changed, or the item was dropped. The latter is the
tricky case.
The idea is to save a parsed copy of the old ntp.conf. As the
Heads up, Mark!
Achim Gratz :
> > It would be better for code verifiability and security if the
> > only source of configuration information for the daemon were the
> > ntp.conf file. (We can't quite get there due to the requirement
> > to store drift state, but closer would be better.)
>
> If y
Hello Achim,
I do like the idea of rich but simple signal semantics. We will have to
talk it out more here in devel@
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:05 AM Achim Gratz wrote:
> Eric S. Raymond writes:
> > ntpq has dangerous operations that tweak parameters of the time-sync
> > algorithms on t
Eric S. Raymond writes:
> ntpq has dangerous operations that tweak parameters of the time-sync
> algorithms on the fly - operations that can be triggered remotely. Or so I
> gather from things Hal Murray has said; my outside view is weak here,
> I've never explored those operations.
In the standar
Jay Maynard :
> I do have an Alpha with Tru64, and would be happy to lend it to the
> project. It'll be a few days before I can attempt to bring it up. It hasn't
> run in something like 10 years.
Thanks.
Hal Murray suggested we use an Alpha for comparative profiling. He'll be
on vacation for a we
When faced with the exciting task of porting RTI's DDS real-time,
Ethernet publish/subscribe middleware to OpenVMS for the USAF JSTARS
project, I turned to both eBay (ES40) and FreeAXP. Performance on the
Alpha emulator was faster than the real hardware and certainly
suitable for development and un
Hal Murray :
>
> e...@thyrsus.com said:
> >> ntpq can be used to tweak things, but it takes a password.
> >> I've never used it that way.
> > And if *you* haven't...I begin to wonder if 99% of the userbase even knows
> > this feature exists.
>
> > I'm sorely tempted to just rip everything passwor
e...@thyrsus.com said:
>> ntpq can be used to tweak things, but it takes a password.
>> I've never used it that way.
> And if *you* haven't...I begin to wonder if 99% of the userbase even knows
> this feature exists.
> I'm sorely tempted to just rip everything password-protected out of ntpq and
>
(Jay: You can skip down to where it says "DEC Alpha".)
Hal Murray :
>
> e...@thyrsus.com said:
> > ntpq has dangerous operations that tweak parameters of the time-sync
> > algorithms on the fly - operations that can be triggered remotely. Or so I
> > gather from things Hal Murray has said; my out
e...@thyrsus.com said:
> ntpq has dangerous operations that tweak parameters of the time-sync
> algorithms on the fly - operations that can be triggered remotely. Or so I
> gather from things Hal Murray has said; my outside view is weak here, I've
> never explored those operations.
ntpq can be u
Mark Atwood :
> It looks like there is no obviously good route forward.
>
> My first inclination is to change ntpsec to do what chrony does re saving
> the drift stats, and once we see that NTPsec can restart converge roughly
> as well as chrony, we rip out the runtime conf code. Maybe even use t
It looks like there is no obviously good route forward.
My first inclination is to change ntpsec to do what chrony does re saving
the drift stats, and once we see that NTPsec can restart converge roughly
as well as chrony, we rip out the runtime conf code. Maybe even use the
same filesystem file
Yo Eric!
On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 16:02:28 -0400 (EDT)
e...@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) wrote:
> There are two major questions here:
>
> 1. Why is convergence from a standing start so slow?
Two issues, I'll be vague as I don't know better:
a. restarting perturbs the system, sometimes badl
Heads up, Mark. Strategic issue being raised here.
Gary Miller says ntpd has a tendency to go nuts when restarted and
converges on good time only slowly, sometimes taking 24-48 hours.
This is a performance problem in itself, which needs to be high
up on the list to be attacked. But it's also a
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