Re: NTP driftness oddity

2011-06-08 Thread Henning Brauer
* Otto Moerbeek [2011-06-03 08:12]: > ntpd does not jump. if invoked with -s it actually does, once, at startup: > > >set local clock to Thu Jun 2 19:56:25 IST 2011 (offset 119.421739s) > It adjusts by running the clock faster or slower. that is of course true, after startup. > The offsets yo

Re: NTP driftness oddity

2011-06-03 Thread FRLinux
Thanks for all the replies guys, it makes sense now :) Steph

Re: NTP driftness oddity

2011-06-02 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:21:41PM -0500, Corey wrote: > On 06/02/2011 02:00 PM, FRLinux wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I am running OpenBSD 4.9 on a soekris which was in a closet for a few > >months. NTP is slowly drifting back the time to normal but I am > >wondering if anyone has seen this. It seems t

Re: NTP driftness oddity

2011-06-02 Thread Corey
On 06/02/2011 02:00 PM, FRLinux wrote: Hello, I am running OpenBSD 4.9 on a soekris which was in a closet for a few months. NTP is slowly drifting back the time to normal but I am wondering if anyone has seen this. It seems that every 5mn, the time gap decreases, this is not a behavior I have se

Re: NTP driftness oddity

2011-06-02 Thread David Walker
FRLinux wrote: > NTP is slowly drifting back the time to normal but I am > wondering if anyone has seen this. >From adjtime(2): "The skew used to perform the correction is generally a fraction of one percent." Every adjustment brings the local clock closer to the desired time - the immediat

NTP driftness oddity

2011-06-02 Thread FRLinux
Hello, I am running OpenBSD 4.9 on a soekris which was in a closet for a few months. NTP is slowly drifting back the time to normal but I am wondering if anyone has seen this. It seems that every 5mn, the time gap decreases, this is not a behavior I have seen. Running from the command line with "