[ntp:questions] NTPD can take 10 hours to achieve stability

C BlacK rblak at non.net
Tue Apr 19 11:10:39 UTC 2011


I am talking about the cheep crystal oscillator in the local x86 computer.

Chip
On 04/18/2011 05:54 PM, C BlacK wrote:
> On 04/17/2011 10:58 PM, C BlacK wrote:
>> Why would it take ntpd ten hours to achieve its accuracy?  Can this be explained in laymans terms and
>> mathematically
>>
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> Absolutely normal!  NTPD can sometimes need up to ten hours to achieve 
>>>> the accuracy it is capable of.
>>>>
>>>
>>
> 
> Thanks for all the great answers.  Now for a harder question, how does the accuracy of the local clock source
> affect the accuracy of ntpd.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Chip




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