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- From: maer@nmr.lpc.ethz.ch (Matthias Ernst)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
- Subject: Re: Problems running xntp v3 on SGI Indigo
- Message-ID: <9208260641.AA15948@curie.ethz.ch>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 06:41:19 GMT
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- -> In article <1992Aug25.185749.29102@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> andy@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Andy Poling) writes:
- -> >From ntp_unixclock.c in my xntpdv2 (xntpv3 is still on my todo list) port
- -> >which ticks nicely on a 4D/300:
- -> >
- -> > [code deleted]
- ->
- -> Thanks; I changed tick and tickadj to your values, but xntpd is still not
- -> working quite right. It seems to feel that it needs to do a step adjustment
- -> but can't because watchdog_timer is less than CLOCK_MINSTEP. When it
- -> finally does get to do the step adjustment, it zeros watchdog_timer and
- -> starts over again. It then decided it needs to do a step adjustment, etc.
- -> ad nauseum.
- ->
- ->
- -> Mike
- ->
- ->
- -> Here's an example from the syslog file:
- ->
- -> Aug 25 16:02:58 indigo xntpd[500]: xntpd version 3.1
- -> Aug 25 16:03:00 indigo xntpd[500]: system event 1 status c010
- -> Aug 25 16:03:34 indigo xntpd[500]: peer 128.200.34.4 event 84 status 9014
- -> Aug 25 16:03:34 indigo xntpd[500]: system event 4 status c621
- -> Aug 25 16:03:34 indigo xntpd[500]: peer 128.200.16.3 event 84 status 9014
- -> Aug 25 16:08:53 indigo xntpd[500]: system event 3 status 634
- -> Aug 25 16:09:57 indigo xntpd[500]: adjust: STEP dropped (128.200.34.4 offset -0.144103289)
- -> Aug 25 16:11:01 indigo xntpd[500]: adjust: STEP dropped (128.200.34.4 offset -0.156219959)
- [syslog deleted]
-
- I just saw your second posting and checked your machine. It seems to synchronize
- fine and run stable. Did you wait long enough for xntpd to adjust the drift value ?
-
- |curie> date
- Wed Aug 26 08:36:06 MET DST 1992
- |curie> ntpq3 -p halide.acs.uci.edu
- remote refid st when poll reach delay offset disp
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