[ntp:questions] ntpd: time reset problem
Frank Elsner
Elsner at tubIT.TU-Berlin.DE
Tue Sep 15 11:27:49 UTC 2009
David Lord wrote:
> Frank Elsner wrote:
>> David Lord wrote:
>>> Frank Elsner wrote:
>>>> Steve Kostecke wrote:
>>
>> [ ... ]
>>
>>>>> Do you have a driftfile line?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, this one:
>>>> 116.833
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> I'll guess that's content of your drift file rather than
>>> location specified in ntp.conf.
>>
>> ntp.conf: driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift
>> /var/lib/ntp/drift: 116.803
>
> I know you can now have above this but I've always tried
> to adjust the kernel in some way to get below 10ppm. My
> experience has been that ntpd doesn't behave well with
> drifts > 50ppm and also large drifts take a long while
> for offset to converge.
>
> I didn't post after I'd seen you were useing a vm, but
> now I see you confirmed you're not :-)
I wonder where this "useing a vm" comes from. Your not the first :-)
--Frank Elsner
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