[ntp:questions] Max time adjustment
David Woolley
david at ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid
Wed Oct 1 07:11:42 UTC 2008
Unruh wrote:
> David Woolley <david at ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes:
>
>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>
>>> ISTR that "-g" unconditionally sets the clock to whatever time is
>>> supplied by the source(s)! It should bring your clock to within a few
>>> milliseconds of whatever source(s) was/were used. This is a ONCE only
>>> setting. Thereafter, less drastic methods are used and the size of any
>>> correction is subject to "sanity checking".
>>>
>>>
>> Not what the documentation (4.2.4p4) says. It only says that it removes
>> the 1000 second limit.
>
> Yes. it says exactly that. See the "this can happen only once" line. And
> the other docs which say that if ntp is off by more than 128ms it will step
> rather than slew.
You need to consider the context of the thread. It is not uncoditional,
because offsets of less than 128ms do not result in a step.
>
>
>
>>> -g
>>> Normally, ntpd exits with a message to the system log if the
>>> offset exceeds the panic threshold, which is 1000 s by default.
>>> This option allows the time to be set to any value without
>>> restriction; however, this can happen only once. If the
>>> threshold is exceeded after that, ntpd will exit with a message
>>> to the system log. This option can be used with the -q and -x
>>> options. See the tinker command for other options.
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