[ntp:questions] Second attempt at GPS-18 based NTP server
David Woolley
david at ex.djwhome.demon.invalid
Thu Feb 2 23:30:59 UTC 2012
David Lord wrote:
>
> I've just added the "minpoll 4 maxpoll 4" back to my ntp.conf
> as it could reduce the 30 usec offset blips I get when logs are
> rotated.
That's almost certainly totally the wrong thing to do. If you have
short periods of increased interrupt latency or network latency, you
want a long poll interval so that the samples with the high offsets (and
delays) are ignored.
Forcing a short interval will make ntpd track the temporary errors in
the time measurements.
Offset is not a direct measure of the timekeeping error.
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