On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 02:12:21PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Kurt Roeckx <k...@roeckx.be>: > > I had a quick look at some of the stats of my peers over internet, > > and most actually seem to have an average jitter in the order of > > around 100 microseconds. Some are lower, some are higher. So I'm > > not sure how I feel about adding an other 100 to that. > > OK, fair point. > > The rule in my head has been that for whatever jitter maximum we want > to hit, we need the the 95th-percentile value of the stop-the-world > bound to to be an order of magnitude below that.
I guess it depends on how often this stop-the-world thing happens. If it happens every packet 100 us is probably too much, if it happens every 1000 packets it's probably acceptable. Kurt _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
