[Info-vax] What's NTP doing ???

[David Froble]

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> David Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> Ok, got interested, did some looking ...
>> c  error: 0.003044
>>  2 Feb 08:43:52 ntp[566]: offset: -0.002093 sec  freq: 13.131 ppm 
>> poll: 1024 se
>> c  error: 0.002265
>>
>> Apparently it's talking to the clock every 2-4 seconds ....
> 
> Yes, that's what it's for.  And if you set it up in a network of machines,
> it will talk to all of them and average all the errors out between them 
> constantly in real time, giving you a more accurate clock than any of them
> individually.
> 
> If this is not what you want, and you do not want constant synchronization,
> consider using ntpdate at boot time instead of running an ntp daemon.
> --scott
> 

I don't have a problem with running NTP.

When the alert was recently posted here, I took a look at my (usually 
quiet) systems and noticed that NTP was, over time, doing lots of 
buffered I/O.  So I got curious.  That's all.

Most of the time NTP is the major task on my 2 running VMS systems. 
Sort of a sad thing to admit.