Re: Best/proper use of orphan mode
Miroslav Lichvar <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 09:00:58AM +0000, Carsten Finis wrote: > > It's supposed to end up in a stable state using only one source, but > > it might take a long time. You can speed it up by increasing > > maxclockerror and reducing the orphan distance. > > > > If that doesn't work for you, please post output from chronyc sources > > and selectdata. > > Here's the situation 24 hours after losing the connection to the external NTP server. Host 1 doesn't want to let loose of that server. > Indeed, that is a stable configuration (if it stays like this), but the actual orphan feature hasn't kicked in - no orphan stratum anywhere. If you don't decrease the orphan distance and/or increase the clock error rate, and the estimated skew (as reported in sourcestats) is small enough, it would take up to 1 million seconds ~ 11 days (default distance divided by maxclockerror) to activate the orphan mode. -- Miroslav Lichvar -- To unsubscribe email chrony-users-request-kWFZVVI9zxvPqho9SqqRMmD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org with "unsubscribe" in the subject. For help email chrony-users-request-kWFZVVI9zxvPqho9SqqRMmD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org with "help" in the subject. Trouble? Email [email protected]