Re: [ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest Redux

2009-11-09 Thread David J Taylor
"David Woolley" wrote in message news:hd8j1u$ou...@news.eternal-september.org... > David J Taylor wrote: > >> http://www.satsignal.eu/mrtg/performance_narvik.php > > How much of that offset do you attribute to actual clock error? > > If most of it, that graph makes a strong case for a low maxpo

Re: [ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest Redux

2009-11-09 Thread David Woolley
David J Taylor wrote: > http://www.satsignal.eu/mrtg/performance_narvik.php How much of that offset do you attribute to actual clock error? If most of it, that graph makes a strong case for a low maxpoll, or a different algorithm. ___ questions mail

Re: [ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest Redux

2009-11-09 Thread Unruh
David Woolley writes: >David J Taylor wrote: >> http://www.satsignal.eu/mrtg/performance_narvik.php >How much of that offset do you attribute to actual clock error? >If most of it, that graph makes a strong case for a low maxpoll, or a >different algorithm. a) This is windows. b) Except for

Re: [ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest Redux

2009-11-09 Thread David J Taylor
"Unruh" wrote in message news:6gujm.51215$db2.19...@edtnps83... [] > a) This is windows. .. and so more of a challenge to get good timekeeping. > b) Except for the abberation at 12, the offset seems to track the disk > temp. > However, it is not the offset which is important but the rate. It

Re: [ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest Redux

2009-11-09 Thread Evandro Menezes
On Nov 9, 9:21 am, "David J Taylor" wrote: > > Here's the offset: >  http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/2009-11-07-08-09-Narvik_offset-tod.png > > and here's the rate: >  http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/2009-11-07-08-09-Narvik_frequency-tod.png > > where values for the last two and half days have been overla

Re: [ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest Redux

2009-11-09 Thread Unruh
Evandro Menezes writes: >On Nov 9, 9:21=A0am, "David J Taylor" bit.nor-this.co.uk.invalid> wrote: >> >> Here's the offset: >> =A0http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/2009-11-07-08-09-Narvik_offset-tod.png >> >> and here's the rate: >> =A0http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/2009-11-07-08-09-Narvik_frequency-tod.pn

Re: [ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest Redux

2009-11-09 Thread David Woolley
Unruh wrote: > Well, you do have that choice, only in different names. chrony uses an > entirely > different algorithm (directly estimating the rate and the offset from a > sequence Looking at the graphs, one needs the first derivative of the rate, as well. > of measurments). Of course you do

[ntp:questions] Tool to sample/monitor an NTP server?

2009-11-09 Thread PhilipPeake
My problem is a client with several systems using a single GPS-based NTP server. A couple of these systems have had occasions where the clock has suddenly stepped around 10,000 seconds backwards: Oct 15 13:22:03 xxx xntpd[403]: [ID 261039 daemon.error] time error -10369.999603 is way too large (se

Re: [ntp:questions] Tool to sample/monitor an NTP server?

2009-11-09 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-11-09, PhilipPeake wrote: > A couple of these systems have had occasions where the clock has > suddenly stepped around 10,000 seconds backwards: > > Oct 15 13:22:03 xxx xntpd[403]: [ID 261039 daemon.error] time error > -10369.999603 is way too large (set clock manually) I'd look for some

Re: [ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest Redux

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Evandro Menezes wrote: > I'd sure like to decide what's good for me, not Mills. What is stopping _you_ from modifying NTP to meet your needs? -- E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists. ___ questions mailing list questions@list