ntpd "STEP storm" with small offset

Ward WIllats busybox at wardco.com
Wed Jul 25 17:54:23 UTC 2018


On Jul 25, 2018, at 10:04 AM, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> This can't be happening on 1.27.2. Code simply does not do that. Step
> offsets ought to be >= 1 second.

Heh. And yet, and yet...

(And again, I have thousands of boxes and most of them work just fine with nice, big steps. But, there are "these happy few"...)

> Please run ntpd with -ddd and post the log.

This will take a while as we don't see the problem here, so I'll need to compile a version w/log support and download it to an affected customer's box in the field. But I'll give it a try.

Thanks,

-- Ward




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