Eben King wrote:
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>>> and it keeps being bad, the daemon should be able to query the time
>>> servers more frequently. But I can't find an option to increase the
>>> frequency with which ntpd consults time servers.
>
> I saw one once, when I was trying to set up ntpd, before Ubuntu did it
> for me. The argument was n where it polls the server every 2^n seconds,
> but I don't recall the flag. Sorry.
>
In the man page, this is called "minpoll" and "maxpoll". You're right
about them being logarithms. The normal values are 6 (2^6 = 64 seconds)
and 10 (2^10 = 1024 seconds ~= 17min). Max values are 4 (2^4 = 16
seconds) and 17 (2^17 = 17.4 hours).
Assuming (since I haven't specified values for these) that ntpd is using
the default range, it's polling servers every 1 to 17 minutes. And yet
I'm losing up to 10 minutes per hour on this box. And that certainly
doesn't make sense.
Paul
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