[ntp:questions] time delta between clients

Rick Jones rick.jones2 at hp.com
Thu Dec 13 23:18:18 UTC 2007


Rick Jones <rick.jones2 at hp.com> wrote:
> On bl480c1:
> ntpq> peers
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
> ==============================================================================
>  bl480c2.raj     10.208.0.1       3 u   13   16  377    0.093   -0.002   0.017
> *linger.raj      15.4.81.61       2 u    2   16  377    0.125    0.155   0.145
>  LOCAL(0)        .LOCL.          10 l   56   64  377    0.000    0.000   0.001

> On bl480c2, when I initially botched the peer line, saying bl481c1 by
> mistake:

> ntpq> peers
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
> ==============================================================================
> *linger.raj      15.4.81.61       2 u   11   16  377    0.139    0.550   0.089
>  LOCAL(0)        .LOCL.          10 l   27   64  377    0.000    0.000   0.001

> I corrected that - it was interesting to see how far things migrated
> in just the 30 seconds or so ntpd wasn't running on bl480c2.  Shortly
> after restarting, the offset reported by bl480c1 was 0.100 rather than
> 0.002.

And ever since then, I've not seen it anywhere near that 0.002 figure.

rick jones
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