[ntp:questions] Startup transient with missing drift file
Spoon
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Mon Apr 9 20:16:33 UTC 2007
Hal Murray wrote:
> What should it look like? How long should it take to get stable?
>
> I was expecting ntpd to think for a while, then jump to close to
> the right value, then converge to the final value. I'd expect
> that to take an hour or so.
(I'm running Linux 2.6.20.x and ntpd 4.2.4p0)
When I start ntpd with no drift file, it remains in state 3 for 15
minutes, reporting 0 frequency offset, then moves to state 4 and gives a
close approximation of the current frequency offset.
> What I'm seeing (recent ntp-dev) is that the jump doesn't get
> very close and the converge part takes multiple hours, depending
> upon how far off the jump was.
>
> Has anybody else watched a startup transient recently?
>
> I've been looking at a lot of them while chasing a Linux
> glitch that doesn't compute the CPU frequency repeatably.
>
> What should happen if I start with an explicit drift value
> that is way off?
In my case, it takes hours to slooowly reach the "new" frequency offset.
Regards.
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