Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats updated less frequently than expected

2009-05-23 Thread David Mills
Bill, Wrong. Please read the description of the clock filter algorithm again and we can discuiss ir further. Dave Unruh wrote: >"David J Taylor" > writes: > > > >>Folks, >> >> > > > >>I have the following entries in ntpd.conf: >> >> > > > >>server 192.168.0.2 iburst maxpoll 6 >

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP and the Intel Atom

2009-05-23 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> > Can anyone report on NTP performance on Intel Atom based systems (such > > as http://supermicro.com/products/chassis/1U/502/SC502L-200.cfm)? > I'm running the latest Ubuntu Netbook version on my Eee 901 PC, afaik > that one has an Atom chip. > If you want me to, I can start collecting loopstat

Re: [ntp:questions] Query about NTP accuracy

2009-05-23 Thread Hal Murray
>PS. Previous to this setup, all three NTP appliance servers failed at >least once, and failed wrong, i.e. they kept responding but with the >wrong time! Each time this happened, we found one or two critical >servers that had been rebooted, then used ntpdate to pick the bogus >server to step t

Re: [ntp:questions] Query about NTP accuracy

2009-05-23 Thread Terje Mathisen
Andy Yates wrote: > Unruh wrote: >> Andy Yates writes: >> >>> Hal Murray wrote: In article <4a15e001$0$18238$da0fe...@news.zen.co.uk>, Andy Yates writes: > Does anybody have any figures that shows the effect on accuracy of an > NTP v3 client using a stratum 1 server rather than

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP and the Intel Atom

2009-05-23 Thread Terje Mathisen
Steve Kostecke wrote: > Can anyone report on NTP performance on Intel Atom based systems (such > as http://supermicro.com/products/chassis/1U/502/SC502L-200.cfm)? > I'm running the latest Ubuntu Netbook version on my Eee 901 PC, afaik that one has an Atom chip. If you want me to, I can start col

Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats updated less frequently than expected

2009-05-23 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: [] > If you mean you have a refclock attached, they have round trip time of > 0. Thus there is never a minimum and all get used. Ntp's algorithm in > short is: Save the last 8 polls. Check if the current poll has a > larger > roundtrip time than any of those 8. If it does, do not use i

Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats updated less frequently than expected

2009-05-23 Thread Unruh
"David J Taylor" writes: >Unruh wrote: >[] >>> As I have maxpoll set to 6, I would have expected entries no more >>> than 64s apart. What am I failing to understand here? The poll >>> values reported in ntpq -p are 64, 64 and 1024 - as expected. >> >> You are forgetting that ntp throws away 7/

Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats updated less frequently than expected

2009-05-23 Thread David J Taylor
Unruh wrote: [] >> As I have maxpoll set to 6, I would have expected entries no more >> than 64s apart. What am I failing to understand here? The poll >> values reported in ntpq -p are 64, 64 and 1024 - as expected. > > You are forgetting that ntp throws away 7/8 of the stuff it collects. > (This

Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats updated less frequently than expected

2009-05-23 Thread Unruh
"David J Taylor" writes: >Folks, >I have the following entries in ntpd.conf: >server 192.168.0.2 iburst maxpoll 6 >server 192.168.0.7 maxpoll 6 >server 0.uk.pool.ntp.org minpoll 10 >.. and the following as the most recent loopstats: >54974 37901.029 -0.000209922 13.840 0.000108471 0.007233

[ntp:questions] NTP and the Intel Atom

2009-05-23 Thread Steve Kostecke
Can anyone report on NTP performance on Intel Atom based systems (such as http://supermicro.com/products/chassis/1U/502/SC502L-200.cfm)? -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists

Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats updated less frequently than expected

2009-05-23 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:59:54AM +, David J Taylor wrote: > .. and the following as the most recent loopstats: > > 54974 37901.029 -0.000209922 13.840 0.000108471 0.007233 6 > 54974 38229.033 0.000346890 13.846 0.000221473 0.007179 6 > 54974 38754.041 -0.000217131 13.840 0.000287548 0.007132

[ntp:questions] Loopstats updated less frequently than expected

2009-05-23 Thread David J Taylor
Folks, I have the following entries in ntpd.conf: server 192.168.0.2 iburst maxpoll 6 server 192.168.0.7 maxpoll 6 server 0.uk.pool.ntp.org minpoll 10 .. and the following as the most recent loopstats: 54974 37901.029 -0.000209922 13.840 0.000108471 0.007233 6 54974 38229.033 0.000346890 13.8