Re: [ntp:questions] Ntpd in uninterruptible sleep?

2011-11-09 Thread A C
On 11/9/2011 20:32, Dave Hart wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 04:21, A C wrote: As expected, it crashed again. The interesting thing is that the constant output from -D2 stopped in its tracks. Nothing in the output shows anything out of the ordinary. It just halts completely. That's progres

Re: [ntp:questions] Ntpd in uninterruptible sleep?

2011-11-09 Thread Dave Hart
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 04:21, A C wrote: > As expected, it crashed again.  The interesting thing is that the constant > output from -D2 stopped in its tracks.  Nothing in the output shows anything > out of the ordinary.  It just halts completely. That's progress, and tells me a lot. We need to

Re: [ntp:questions] Ntpd in uninterruptible sleep?

2011-11-09 Thread A C
On 11/9/2011 14:26, Dave Hart wrote: On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 20:44, A C wrote: It didn't take long to crash but I'm not able to catch the buffers in the act of filling up. However, the increased poll rate does shorten the life of ntpd's run time. Note this instance crashed after only 332 secon

Re: [ntp:questions] Seeing large jitter and delay in recent ntpd and recent Solaris

2011-11-09 Thread Dave Hart
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 23:44, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Nov 9, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: >> That will do little good and maybe some harm.  ntpd reads time stamped >> input.  Even if this sits in a buffer unprocessed it's OK because the >> critical work, the stamping is done inside an

Re: [ntp:questions] Ntpd in uninterruptible sleep?

2011-11-09 Thread A C
On 11/9/2011 14:26, Dave Hart wrote: On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 20:44, A C wrote: It didn't take long to crash but I'm not able to catch the buffers in the act of filling up. However, the increased poll rate does shorten the life of ntpd's run time. Note this instance crashed after only 332 secon

Re: [ntp:questions] Seeing large jitter and delay in recent ntpd and recent Solaris

2011-11-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Nov 9, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: >> We have other real time processing occuring on the system and are sensitive >> to offset errors, so we want ntpd to run at the highest real time priority. > > That will do little good and maybe some harm. ntpd reads time stamped > input. Eve

Re: [ntp:questions] Seeing large jitter and delay in recent ntpd and recent Solaris

2011-11-09 Thread Chris Albertson
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Fran wrote: > Thanks Chuck, > > We have other real time processing occuring on the system and are sensitive > to offset errors, so we want ntpd to run at the highest real time priority. That will do little good and maybe some harm. ntpd reads time stamped input.

Re: [ntp:questions] Ntpd in uninterruptible sleep?

2011-11-09 Thread Dave Hart
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 20:44, A C wrote: > It didn't take long to crash but I'm not able to catch the buffers in the > act of filling up.  However, the increased poll rate does shorten the life > of ntpd's run time.  Note this instance crashed after only 332 seconds.  I > was running ntpdc at a sl

Re: [ntp:questions] Seeing large jitter and delay in recent ntpd and recent Solaris

2011-11-09 Thread Fran
Thanks Chuck, We have other real time processing occuring on the system and are sensitive to offset errors, so we want ntpd to run at the highest real time priority. Irregardless of the priority levels, don't you think that if SIGPOLL is sent to the ntpd process then select() called in that SIG

Re: [ntp:questions] Ntpd in uninterruptible sleep?

2011-11-09 Thread A C
On 11/4/2011 18:40, Dave Hart wrote: From your netbsd.org mailing list traffic, I believe you're using NetBSD 5.x. Looking at ntpd/ntp_io.c, recvfrom() is not the call I'd expect to see happen, has NetBSD 5.x supports SO_TIMESTAMP, so #ifdef HAVE_TIMESTAMP code is active, and ntpd would typica

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP and WinXP

2011-11-09 Thread lelonga
Ok, Thanks a lot. I'll try to set up ntpd. Thanks again ! :) - Mail original - De: "Richard B. Gilbert" À: questions@lists.ntp.org Envoyé: Mercredi 9 Novembre 2011 15:15:40 Objet: Re: [ntp:questions] NTP and WinXP On 11/8/2011 12:52 PM, lelo...@free.fr wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I'm

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP and WinXP

2011-11-09 Thread David J Taylor
Hi everybody! I'm trying to configure the ntp client (w32time) of a computer that runs XP to synchronize with a ntp server running on a linux server. Does anybody know where I can set the stratum of the XP computer? (I get the following error when I try to synchronize: "The time sample was r

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP and WinXP

2011-11-09 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
On 11/8/2011 12:52 PM, lelo...@free.fr wrote: Hi everybody! I'm trying to configure the ntp client (w32time) of a computer that runs XP to synchronize with a ntp server running on a linux server. Does anybody know where I can set the stratum of the XP computer? You CAN'T set the stratum! (

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP and WinXP

2011-11-09 Thread Dave Hart
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 17:52, wrote: > I'm trying to configure the ntp client (w32time) of a computer that > runs XP to synchronize with a ntp server running on a linux server. http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/WindowsTimeService http://blogs.msdn.com/b/w32time/archive/2008/02/26/configuri

[ntp:questions] NTP and WinXP

2011-11-09 Thread lelonga
Hi everybody! I'm trying to configure the ntp client (w32time) of a computer that runs XP to synchronize with a ntp server running on a linux server. Does anybody know where I can set the stratum of the XP computer? (I get the following error when I try to synchronize: "The time sample was rej