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- From: sanders@cs.ubc.ca (Michael Sanderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
- Subject: NTP version 3 on Apollo DOMAIN/OS
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 09:32:44 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- Distribution: inet
- Message-ID: <1i9sbsINNemf@warsteiner.cs.ubc.ca>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: warsteiner.cs.ubc.ca
- Summary: What should the tickadj and tick be?
- Keywords: NTPv3, apollo, domain/os
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- I have about 40 Apollo 3000 and 3500 machines running DOMAIN/OS 10.2. I'm
- currently running ntp version 1 on the machines and they are keeping time quite
- well. However, I would like to upgrade the software to the xntp package kept
- on louie.udel.edu so that I can run the same software on those machines and
- the rest of the machines in our department.
-
- I would like to know if anyone has done this and experimented with values for
- the variables tickadj and tick. DOMAIN/OS doesn't have kmem or libkvm, so I
- defined NOKMEM and used the default values. However, on the one machine that
- I am testing the software on, the hourly log information displays increasingly
- larger values for freq, until it finally dies with the message
-
- Drift exceeds +371ppm, cannot cope.
-
- I don't know that much about the code, so perhaps I'm off track believing that
- this error results from poor values for tickadj and tick.
-
- Someone running the version 2 xntp package had some patches for DOMAIN/OS
- however I don't have them. I'm willing to try them out if someone will send
- them to me and I'll post my results.
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- Michael Sanderson sanders@cs.ubc.ca
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