Re: PSA: Clock drift and pkgin

Johnny Billquist <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2023-12-21 12:14, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Thu, 2023-12-21 10:44:22 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Dec 2023, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

[...]

> Looking at the numbers, I wonder about multiple issues here. Why did
> the jitter values rise up that much, while the delay keeps its value?

Unless I remember wrong, delay is merely how long it takes for packets 
to travel back and forth to the ntp server. So it has no relation to 
jitter or offset. It would rather be weird if delay suddenly started 
changing.

> ...and finally: Why didn't ntpd react with increasing the poll
> interval?

It's already at the max poll interval in all those reports.

ntp starts out with an interval of 64s, and backs off to 1024 eventuall, 
over time, if things are stable. In this case things aren't stable, but 
it seems to never have locked on to anything. So it's just been drifting 
the whole time, it looks to me.

   Johnny

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