[ntp:questions] Red Hat vote for chrony

Charles Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Fri Dec 5 20:52:28 UTC 2014


On Dec 5, 2014, at 11:53 AM, William Unruh <unruh at invalid.ca> wrote:
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>>> It simply alters the rate at any time so as to decrease the offset, and
>>> it does this measurement by measurement. It has no memory. 
>> 
>> This is obviously false.  What do you think /etc/ntp.drift is?
> 
> It is the offset from the standard rate of the clock. That memory is
> never used except on bootup. ntpd has to know how much to alter the
> drift.

Ah, so you acknowledge that your original statement was wrong.

Just like your claim whether the chrony docs recommend using maxpoll=4
across the network to a LAN timesource or not was wrong?

Just like your claim about whether ntpd cares about figuring out the local
clock frequency or whether it only chases the offset was wrong?

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck



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