Re: [ntp:questions] ntp too agressive on clock changes

2013-04-14 Thread David Woolley
Hal Murray wrote: Things can get confused if your network connection is overloaded in one direction. On my DSL link, I've seen delays of almost 4 seconds. If I'm doing a big download that can persist for a long time. The huff and puff tinker option was introduced to minimise false steps in

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp too agressive on clock changes

2013-04-14 Thread David Taylor
On 13/04/2013 20:43, website.read...@gmail.com wrote: I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, running v4.2.6 ntp [] Does the development version, 4.2.7, improve things: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SoftwareDownloads What are you syncing from? Perhaps you might want to build yourself a simpl

Re: [ntp:questions] high jitter on serial gps causes big time offsets

2013-04-14 Thread David Taylor
On 13/04/2013 20:47, website.read...@gmail.com wrote: [] It is disgusting to buy a motherboard, load it with graphics processors, and memory and then find that the whole thing cannot keep time. I consider time keeping THE most neglected component in computer motherboards today. For most peop

[ntp:questions] 70 msec spike when rebooting

2013-04-14 Thread Mischanko, Edward T
Is it normal to have a 70 msec spike when rebooting Windows XP? I was under the impression that NTP was supposed to set the RTC when exiting? Regards, Ed ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] high jitter on serial gps causes big time offsets

2013-04-14 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
On 4/13/2013 5:09 PM, David Woolley wrote: website.read...@gmail.com wrote: I can obtain some precision crystals (+/- 2ppm) for about $8 to $10, + so why aren't they being added to the mid-level and up motherboards? $8-10 for the crystal would imply a total motherboard price of $2,000+. I th