Re: [ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-16 Thread Lars Ericsson
Hi All, Thanks for your efforts trying to help me with this issue. I understand that the reason for ntp to adjust with a sudden jumps may be many. Some of them may be possible to prevent some others not. My problem is that it MUST NOT JUMP. I'm currently running a few tests, trying to verify

[ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-13 Thread Lars Ericsson
Hi all, I have been running the ntp client on a Linux platform for some time and have not seen any problems. I recently run into a strange behavior where our communication software failed on some critical timeouts. After some investigation we found out the the system time suddenly made a jump

Re: [ntp:questions] How do I prevent sudden system time jumps.

2011-07-13 Thread Lars Ericsson
Thanks for the reply. I recently run into a strange behavior where our communication software failed on some critical timeouts. After some investigation we found out the the system time suddenly made a jump with 200ms. Yup. ntpd makes huge statements about the importance of keeping things