[ntp:questions] Re: HowTo calibrate system clock frequency using NTP
Terje Mathisen
terje.mathisen at hda.hydro.com
Wed Feb 1 19:57:33 UTC 2006
Daniel Kabs wrote:
> Hello Professor Mills,
>
> I tried both of your suggestions and the results differ slightly:
>
> Plan A)
>
> After running NTP daemon for two days, the frequency converges to 268.3
> PPM, i.e. 23.2 seconds per day.
>
>
> Plan B)
>
> Running NTP daemon using "disable ntp", I recorded the offset of the
> associated peer periodically for a couple of hours. A least-squares fit
> gave a slope of 23.7 seconds per day. (At the same time I recorded the
> offset using deprecated ntpdate and got 23.8 seconds per day).
>
This is well within the expected precision for such an experiment, the
final ntp.drift value (23.2 or 268.3) probably reflects the current
drift rate, not the average.
These two values are different because the environmental temperature
varies, often diurnally, so if you log the changes in ntp.drift then
you'll probably notice that the average corresponds closely to the
23.7/23.8 numbers.
Terje
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