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From: Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: bloat-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net,
	Eric Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>,
	Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net>
Subject: Re: Preliminary results of using GPS to look for clock skew
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:24:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D61AB68F-2055-4D1D-A71E-3C1F0AFD6BB1@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110922021137.GB21302@thyrsus.com>


On 22 Sep, 2011, at 5:11 am, Eric Raymond wrote:

>> 2) ReRun all tests under load (example: netperf -l 3600 -H the_router)
> 
> I'll do this, for completeness, but I predict it's not going to make
> any measurable difference.  The indications so far are that neither of
> the means of time delivery I have available to check are compute-bound
> or disk-I/O bound at any point in their delivery chains.  
> 
> So I think they're just going to shrug off any load short of
> machine-thrashing-its-guts-out.  But part of the point of what I'm
> doing is that soon we'll have the test tools to know for *sure* that's
> true.

When the *network* is loaded, the latency to the NTP server changes.  That is likely to confuse ntpd - it certainly did when I lived on an analogue modem.

 - Jonathan Morton


  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-22  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-21 23:02 Eric Raymond
2011-09-22  0:18 ` Dave Taht
2011-09-22  2:11   ` Eric Raymond
2011-09-22  2:24     ` Jonathan Morton [this message]
2011-09-22  2:29       ` Eric Raymond
2011-09-23  9:09       ` Jan Ceuleers
2011-09-23  9:38         ` Dave Taht
2011-09-23 12:10           ` Jan Ceuleers
2011-09-23 12:50             ` Rick
2011-09-24 14:50               ` Jan Ceuleers
2011-09-22  9:08     ` Dave Taht
2011-09-22 17:15       ` Rick Jones
2011-09-22 17:34         ` Dave Taht
2011-09-22 17:43           ` Rick Jones
2011-09-22 17:58             ` Dave Taht
2011-09-23 10:57           ` Aidan Williams
2011-09-23 10:10     ` Dave Taht
2011-09-23  9:09   ` Jan Ceuleers
2011-09-23  9:24 ` Jan Ceuleers

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