[ntp:questions] ntp-4.2.6p3-1.el5 - minpoll & local PPS source

Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar at redhat.com
Wed Feb 2 13:33:07 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 07:11:07PM -0000, Q wrote:
> My local PPS source is set for 'minpoll 4' (16 sec) this has had the knock 
> on effect that the other network based servers have all decided to poll at 
> 64sec intervals.

I can confirm this with ntp-4.2.6p3 and a recent ntp-dev. But it seems
to be a design decision to use similar polling interval for all
sources, even when they have very different jitter.

As others have said, a workaround is to set minpoll to 10 for the NTP
sources.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar



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