[ntp:questions] Number of Stratum 1 & Stratum 2 Peers
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Tue Dec 16 03:18:38 UTC 2014
Mike Stump wrote:
> David Woolley wrote:
>> Drift is a pure number. If you ever get a time error
>> of more than 100ms, ntpd is in severe distress.
>
> On a computer with a blocked fan, thermal limits kick in
> and slow the world down. When this happens ntp cannot
> cope, and refuses to even try and keep any sync.
> Result, no sync what-so-ever. :-( A nicer failure mode
> would be to just sync time once every 1024 seconds.
> Not pretty, but, better than nothing.
If +/- 1 Second in ~17+ minutes (or so) is acceptable to the OP.
That would probably also be fine for many leaf client end users.
I doubt most astronomical, real time high frequency trading,
or maybe even other IT uses of timestamps would be very
happy with uncontrolled drifting apart for at least
a quarter of an hour and then jumping to the correct
time and continuing uncontrolled drifting apart again.
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