[ntp:questions] Re: Excessive polling

Hal Murray hmurray at suespammers.org
Sat Nov 15 20:36:48 UTC 2003


>> Having a local refclock (MSF in your case) is enough to force all other 
>> references to stay at minpoll.
>
>I've noticed this too.  Is this explicitly noted in the NTP documentation
>(or even commented in the sourcecode?)  I didn't find it, so I figured this
>was a undesired side-effect of having a local refclock.

I haven't seen it in the documentation either, but I haven't gone
looking recently.  Seems like a good topic for the FAQ and/or twicki.

I learned about it here.  That was a year or two ago.

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