Re: ✘minpoll=maxpoll=2

2016-09-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Gary E. Miller writes: > Poll=2s is still the bast for this hardware, but there is a little > tradeoff between offset and jitter. Since NTP is about time, not > frequency, we go with the best time. You 've made this argument before, but I think it's circular reasoning. You make the local clock fo

Re: How much do we care about high-load scenarios?

2016-09-16 Thread Dan Drown
Quoting Kurt Roeckx : : From my own testing with iperf high rate 64 byte UDP packets, max rate before 1% receive packet loss: i3-540 / Intel 82574L nic: ~469kpps Athlon(tm) 64 X2 4400+ / RTL8168 gig nic: ~64kpps Odroid C2: ~62kpps Raspberry Pi 2: ~19kpps Beaglebone Black: ~9kpps Raspberry Pi B+:

Re: How much do we care about high-load scenarios?

2016-09-16 Thread Hal Murray
k...@roeckx.be said: > Isn't the timer also used for the PI loop? Or has much of that design been > changed? The timer goes off each second, and then calls various routines to see if they have any work to do. Many of those routines decrement a counter each time they get called and then do th

Re: How much do we care about high-load scenarios?

2016-09-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 06:00:45PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Dan Drown : > > Quoting "Eric S. Raymond" : > > >Achim Gratz : > > >>…or move the refclocks out of ntpd altogether and use some shared memory > > >>or mailbox system to have ntpd have a look at the timestamp stream from > > >>each r

Re: How much do we care about high-load scenarios?

2016-09-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 04:40:57PM -0500, Dan Drown wrote: > > This page from cloudflare does a nice job of describing the limitations of a > single process UDP receive model: > https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-receive-a-million-packets/ > > The limit they hit with their hardware was around 370