[ntp:questions] testing slew only mode (-x), not slewing correctly (linux sles10, ntpd v 4.1.1)
Rick Jones
rick.jones2 at hp.com
Thu Oct 22 01:15:53 UTC 2009
Brian Utterback <brian.utterback at sun.com> wrote:
> And indeed, slewalways mode is unstable. That is why it was changed
> to a "slew mostly" mode in later versions.
What does "mostly" mean here? I see discussion all over the place
(perhaps it is now entrenched into folklore?) about how one "never"
wants to have the clock of say a database server "stepped."
rick jones
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