[PATCH 0/5] Fix ntpd to not poll frequently

Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar at redhat.com
Mon Oct 6 09:27:58 UTC 2014


On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 03:12:33AM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 October 2014 14:18, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> > The offset/jitter ratio is calculated before jitter is updated with
> > the new (possibly large) offset to make the test which adjusts the
> > poll more sensitive. Without this change it didn't work well in my
> > testing, it was pretty much always going up.
> 
> Applied to git, thanks! Can you try current git? 

In a quick testing it seems to be working as expected. The
offset/jitter ratio modification was mainly useful with the other part
of the patch which changed how is the polling interval decreased and
this was not included (yet?).

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar


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