[ntp:questions] So what? (Re: 500ppm - is it too small?)

Nero Imhard nim at pipe.nl
Thu Aug 20 07:58:40 UTC 2009


Unruh schreef:

> And you miss the point-- ntp itself should be doing that. It is a
> program that is supposed to discipline the clock. It should not ask you
> to do part of its job.

We might even agree. It could be appropriate for ntp to include a 
configurable frequency offset that can be used on OSs that lack such a 
feature. That's much more reasonable than to stretch the frequency error 
limit used in the disciplining algorithm.

So if anything in ntp needs to be changed for this, I'd rather see en 
extra tuning knob.

N




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