[ntp:questions] A faster settling NTP
David J Taylor
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Fri Dec 25 05:58:13 UTC 2009
"unruh" <unruh at wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> wrote in message
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>> Why not take a different approach, then? Start with chrony to make the
>> system rapidly stable, and then turn control over to NTP. Is something
>> like that possible?
>
> Why not just stick with chrony. But I thought we were discussing Windows
> systems, on which chrony does not run. And if someone has rewritten
> chrony to run on windows, there is no point in handing over to ntp. As I
> said chrony is about 2 times better ( lower standard deviation) than
> ntp. Why would you want to hand over control to a worse program?
I had wondered whether that might be an acceptable solution for some folk.
My original question was not OS-specific. As you say, until chrony is
available for a wider range of operating systems and supports GPS/PPS
reference clocks it is but of academic interest. As NTP already provides
that infrastructure, enhancing the initial convergence rather than having
to re-invent the whole wheel seems a better approach to me.
Happy Christmas all all our readers!
David
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