On Thursday 08 February 2007 16:49, Paul M Foster wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >>> 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
I'm sorry if I'm saying something already covered in the thread as I did not
follow it too closely, more or less expecting it to be solved by now.
I've had that happen before and what I did was a combination of will power and
magic! Hehe, just kidding. What I did was change the timezone file. Even
though it had been right before.
After that I noticed it still going the wrong way and I would set it close to
real time manually, and after a couple of times it became correct. Not very
scientific I admit, but I did not bother doing more research once it started
going right again. YMMV.
--Steve Szmidt
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