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- From: srp@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
- Subject: Re: Time synchronization on lots of SGI Indigos
- Message-ID: <srp.716183215@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 03:46:55 GMT
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- paulr@umbc4.umbc.edu (Paul Riddle) writes:
-
- >Hi everyone,
-
- >I would like to use xntpd for time synchronization on several labs of
- >SGI Indigos. There are a total of 115 machines. I have built and
- >tested xntpd successfully, but it doesn't include kernel support for
- >setting tickadj on the Indigo. I have tried tweaking tickadj by hand,
- >but no matter what I do it generates large volumes of syslog messages
- >saying that it is stepping the clock backwards (one every couple of
- >minutes).
-
- >So, my basic question is: has anyone gotten xntpd to work well on an
- >Indigo? If so, how did you do it?
-
- >In case it's important, most of our stratum-3 servers are DECstations
- >running version 1 ntpd. This is mainly because DECs seem to have
- >reasonably good clocks, and ntpd is included with Ultrix.
-
- I ported and use ntpd (without the "x") on a set of about 12 PI's. I hacked
- up ntpd on our iri to accept the "tickadj" var, multiply by 1000 and use it
- to set timetrim via the syssgi() function and SGI_SETTIMETRIM (there is
- also a SGI_GETTIMETRIM). Tickadj is in uS/S, timetrim is in nS/S. I've
- been using a value of about -400000 nS/S (so tickadj = -400) for our
- 4D/20's and a 25: the logical clock stays synced with that, and -4000 nS/S
- (so tickadj = -4) for the 35's. timetrim is a signed long.
-
- Check babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu [128.218.21.42] in ~ftp/pub/ntpd.patch for the
- patch and the Makefile.
-
- - Scott Presnell (srp@cgl.ucsf.edu)
-
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