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From: net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Re:  XNTPD problems on SPARC w/ SunOS 4.1.1
Message-ID: <3667@kraftbus.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: 10 Jun 91 19:58:49 GMT
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In article <9106101426.aa07183@huey.udel.edu> Mills@udel.edu writes:
> The real downer is
> when the clock gets yanked over the 128-ms linear-tracking interval,
> which causes the algorithms to perform a complete reset.

This is what happened on some of our SPARCStations after I installed
xntp on them (and boy was it a downer :-).  The problem was gone after
a couple of days when the value in the drift file stabilized (according
to the drift file, the drift is currently -1.31 on the Sun where I'm
posting this article).