[ntp:questions] Sudden drop in frequency after software update
Sam Nelson
sam at ssrl.org.uk
Mon Jan 19 12:10:23 UTC 2009
In article <49745d61$0$185$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>,
Nero Imhard <nim at pipe.nl> writes:
> David J Taylor schreef:
> > Are current versions of FreeBSD much better for timekeeping than
> > Linux?
>
> In my rather subjective raw user (or rather: administrator) experience
> there are just too many little problems getting ntp to work decently
> starting from a stock Linux, and the result never instills full
> confidence (at least with me...).
I guess I must have just been lucky, then. Having twice recently turned
a Windows server into a Linux (=Debian) server, my experience is that
the hardware that used to jump around tens of ms and hundreds of PPM
converges to a couple of ms in a few hours and stays there; having decided
on a drift value, it tends to stick with it. I've yet to build NTP for
Linux. I just fire-and-forget, straight from the distribution.
--
SAm.
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