[ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest Redux

Todd Glassey tglassey at earthlink.net
Sun Nov 8 20:06:17 UTC 2009


David J Taylor wrote:
> "Hal Murray" <> wrote in message 
> news:v72dnRRFBauF8WvXnZ2dnUVZ_t5i4p2d at megapath.net...
>   
>>> NTPD is at its best from about 2300 local time to 0700 local time. The
>>> net quiets down and NTP packets travel with minimal and highly
>>> predictable delays.
>>>       
>> Except at 3 AM when the cron jobs go off and warm up the system.
>>     
>
> Many such temperature variations must have a fairly strong 24-hour cyclic 
> component, so would there be an improvement in performance if NTP could 
> remember the frequency (or whatever) averaged over, say, the last seven 
> days, and use this as an expected base value?
>   
Its why NTP needs to ultimately be an embedded device inside the hosting 
system. I designed this in the Assurance Work's Embedded Peer module 
where temperature and other aspects of the host environment could more 
readily be controlled.

Todd
> Cheers,
> David 
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