[ntp:questions] What level of timesynch error is typical onWinXP?
David J Taylor
david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid
Fri Oct 22 10:39:47 UTC 2010
"Dave Hart" <davehart at gmail.com> wrote in message
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> No new settings required. You might have a hard time picking out the
> difference using 5-minute samples of mrtg and the hardcoded Y axis.
> Looking at loopstats graphs, I would expect you to see little
> overshoot or ringing from the initial offset correction.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave Hart
Thanks, Dave. I may be missing something here, but it seems to me that
4.2.7p58 still takes a number of hours to reach the accuracy limits where
thermal effects dominate. It's that which matters to me, rather than
something in the first few minutes. I agree the graphs would not show
such short time-scale initial disturbances.
On the XP versus Vista/Win-7 issue, one thing I notice is that the
loopstats files for the Win-7 system are about four times the size of
those for the XP system - 144KB rather than 36KB for a complete day. 603
lines for XP, 2520 lines for Win-7. Yet both have the same (rather short)
max poll interval of 32 seconds. Does this suggest that NTP is having to
work harder on Win-7? In case anyone is interested, the loopstats files
for the previous three days are here:
http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/xp-win7-loopstats.zip (159KB)
Cheers,
David
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