How do you set update intervals for NTP client?
I am running Suse 11.1 under Virtual PC 2007. I have the problem of Suse
loosing time particulary after applying certain Suse updates.
-MD
You run the ntpd service to track public time servers, or you run ntpd in one-shot mode to set the time (11.1), or you run ntpdate to set the time (< 11.1).
On 2009-02-24, MarkD <mdnc@boreal.org> wrote:
> How do you set update intervals for NTP client?
>
> I am running Suse 11.1 under Virtual PC 2007. I have the problem of Suse
> loosing time particulary after applying certain Suse updates.
You should just run ntpd (set up via YaST / ntp client) and let it all take
care of itself. With ntpd continually adjusting the interval is irrelevant.
kind regards,
Andreas Stieger
Andreas Stieger wrote:
> On 2009-02-24, MarkD <mdnc@boreal.org> wrote:
>> How do you set update intervals for NTP client?
>>
>> I am running Suse 11.1 under Virtual PC 2007. I have the problem of Suse
>> loosing time particulary after applying certain Suse updates.
>
> You should just run ntpd (set up via YaST / ntp client) and let it all
> take care of itself. With ntpd continually adjusting the interval is
> irrelevant.
>
> kind regards,
> Andreas Stieger
Several times I have gone into yast and clicked use ntp using the default
time servers.
Is there a console command that will display the dafault update interval?
-MD
On 2009-02-24, MarkD <mdnc@boreal.org> wrote:
> Andreas Stieger wrote:
>
>> On 2009-02-24, MarkD <mdnc@boreal.org> wrote:
>>> How do you set update intervals for NTP client?
>>>
>>> I am running Suse 11.1 under Virtual PC 2007. I have the problem of Suse
>>> loosing time particulary after applying certain Suse updates.
>>
>> You should just run ntpd (set up via YaST / ntp client) and let it all
>> take care of itself. With ntpd continually adjusting the interval is
>> irrelevant.
>
> Several times I have gone into yast and clicked use ntp using the default
> time servers.
>
> Is there a console command that will display the dafault update interval?
yourfavouriteeditor /etc/ntp.conf
Again, the interval is irrelevant (and I don’t even think it’s constant).
You seem to have the notion that the clock runs at some speed and at some
regular intervals is set back/forward to the correct time. What it really
does is adjust the speed of the kernel clock between the ntp queries with
it’s upstream and peer servers, so the clock is always as correct as
possible.
Check your ntp configuration (/etc/ntp.conf, /etc/sysconfig/ntp) and whether
ntpd is running properly and can reach the servers specified.
Kind regards,
Andreas Stieger
MarkD schrieb:
> How do you set update intervals for NTP client?
You don’t. NTP is an adaptive algorithm. It changes the poll interval
dynamically as needed. And it’s called “poll interval”, not “update
interval”, because NTP does not “update” the client’s clock to the
value received from a server; it adjusts the clock speed to achieve
long-term synchronization.
That said, you can set the minimum and maximum poll intervals with
the “minpoll” and “maxpoll” parameters of the “server” command in
the configuration file /etc/ntp.conf. These are given as log2 of the
desired interval. You can specify minpoll between 4 (meaning 16 secs)
and 6 (64 secs), and maxpoll between 10 (1024 secs) and 17 (131072
secs, or 36.4 hours). But you should leave them at their defaults
unless you have a very good reason to change them.
> I am running Suse 11.1 under Virtual PC 2007. I have the problem of Suse
> loosing time particulary after applying certain Suse updates.
Timekeeping in virtualized hosts is a complex topic. I doubt
very much that you’ll be able to improve it by fiddling with
polling intervals.
HTH
T.
MarkD wrote:
> How do you set update intervals for NTP client?
>
> I am running Suse 11.1 under Virtual PC 2007. I have the problem of Suse
> loosing time particulary after applying certain Suse updates.
>
> -MD
To all that responded thank you.
From looking at /var/log/ntp, I found an 10 hour gap where no updates
transacted until a reboot today. I will apply the security patches waiting
and check sleep mode settings.
-MD
MarkD wrote:
> MarkD wrote:
>
>> How do you set update intervals for NTP client?
>>
>> I am running Suse 11.1 under Virtual PC 2007. I have the problem of Suse
>> loosing time particulary after applying certain Suse updates.
>>
>> -MD
>
>
> To all that responded thank you.
>
> From looking at /var/log/ntp, I found an 10 hour gap where no updates
> transacted until a reboot today. I will apply the security patches
> waiting and check sleep mode settings.
>
> -MD
I went to desktop configuration-display settings-power control and disabled
display power management. This morning the clock is off by two hours. I
checked /var/log/ntp and it shows no updates taking place for about the
time the clock is off.
Any ideas?
Should I start this as a new thread?
-MD
MarkD schrieb:
>>>
>>> I am running Suse 11.1 under Virtual PC 2007. I have the problem of Suse
>>> loosing time particulary after applying certain Suse updates.
…]
> I went to desktop configuration-display settings-power control and disabled
> display power management. This morning the clock is off by two hours. I
> checked /var/log/ntp and it shows no updates taking place for about the
> time the clock is off.
>
> Any ideas?
As I said, timekeeping in virtual machines is a complicated topic.
I have no experience with Virtual PC. What mechanisms does it have
to synchronize the clocks of its clients?
> Should I start this as a new thread?
I think that would be a good idea. It may also help to mention “Virtual PC”
in the subject line.
HTH
T.