[ntp:questions] Drift handling....
David J Taylor
david-taylor at blueyonder.co.not-this-bit.nor-this-part.uk.invalid
Sun Jan 1 14:44:38 UTC 2006
It seems to me that a good proportion of my problems at the leap-second
were due to the drift file suddenly being set to a large value (just short
of 500). NTP was able to recover from this on two PCs, but not on the
other two. The drift file was altered to this new value within an hour of
midnight (UTC).
Is it possible to make it much less easy for NTP to alter the drift file
value - for example to require a different measured value for e.g. 24
hours before the drift is taken as having changed? Of course, I only see
the value in the drift file, but I presume I am really talking about the
internal clock drift rate value.
Does altering that internal drift rate improve the stability over the
diurnal temperature cycle? If so, could you do something like keeping a
drift history (say) once every 6 hours, so that a measure of the diurnal
instability was known by four samples, each averaged over several days?
And then, only if a whole day's values (four sets) were different, would
you assume that something really had changed?
I don't know if what I'm asking for is sensible or feasible, but I put it
up for comment.
Cheers,
David
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