From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>
To: Dave Taht <davet@teklibre.net>
Cc: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: [Starlink] NTP implementations [was: Microstate Accounting and the Nyquist problem]
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:17:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnqryr4h.wl-jch@irif.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D0E5C742-37E4-4BF4-B041-EB09E708AFD0@teklibre.net>
> Once upon a time, I sat in esr's basement hearing him rip much crud out of the
> old ntpd codebase over the course of a very few days. The shouts “What?
> WHAAAT?” and most of the other pithy comments he made never made the git log.
Yeah, it's a university project -- generations after generations of
students who hack on the codebase during summer projects. I have some
experience with such ;-)
> Over the years following the codebase got better and better, but adoption has
> been slow.
The potential userbase might be using chrony, which has set a rather high
bar to compete against (I've seen it behave beautifully on some pretty
broken hardware).
-- Juliusz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-18 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2021-06-09 13:15 ` [Starlink] Fwd: Microstate Accounting and the Nyquist problem Dave Taht
2021-06-11 22:14 ` David Collier-Brown
2021-06-11 22:34 ` Mike Puchol
2021-06-11 22:39 ` [Starlink] " Dave Taht
2021-06-11 22:59 ` Nathan Owens
2021-06-11 23:00 ` Dave Taht
2021-06-11 23:09 ` Mike Puchol
2021-06-18 18:17 ` Juliusz Chroboczek [this message]
2021-06-12 14:00 ` Michael Richardson
2021-06-12 16:13 ` Mike Puchol
2021-06-12 16:42 ` Nathan Owens
2021-06-12 19:05 ` Mike Puchol
2021-06-12 19:20 ` Gary E. Miller
2021-06-12 1:40 ` [Starlink] Fwd: " Karl Auerbach
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