[ntp:questions] Very large offset and jitter values after reboot

Unruh unruh-spam at physics.ubc.ca
Mon Aug 25 17:55:28 UTC 2008


nb at komeda-berlin.de (Nicola Berndt) writes:

>Unruh schrieb:
>> nb at komeda-berlin.de (Nicola Berndt) writes:
>> 
>>>>>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  
>>>>> jitter
>>>>> ==============================================================================
>>>>>  GPS_NMEA(0)     .GPS.            0 l    9   64   37    0.000  -580.75 
>>>>> 3965.19
>>>> You've not had your first 8 samples yet.  You haven't actually had 
>>>> enough for ntpd to act on the data.  You can speed that up with iburst, 
>>>> but ntpd will still take a long time to get a very tight lock.  jitter 
>>>> will reduce as you get to the eight samples.  The good? think, is that 
>>>> you are more than 128ms out, so that ntpd will step the time, to zero 
>>>> the offset, once it gets enough samples.
>> 
>> 
>>> Just tried the iburst option, but I had to figure it only works with the 
>>> server command, not on refclocks.
>> 
>> Oops forgot you have a gps clock. chrony does not work with refclocks.
>> 
>> 
>>> What really puzzles me, is the stoical 600 ms offset after rebooting. 
>>> Since it is always returning having more or less the same amount, I 
>>> should really be able to get rid of it, no?
>> 
>> It sounds like your rtc has problems. You can use hwclock to compensate for
>> rtc problems. 

>Well, I tried 'hwclock --systohc' with no different result. More 
>suggestions?

Try using the  --directisa option both when you write the rtc on
shutdown and when you read it on bootup. If you have a very modermn machine
with HPET the rtc driver is badly munged. It should only be out by about
13ms, not 600 however. 

Also look at the /etc/adjtime file 




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