ntp sync frequency
Christopher K. Johnson
ckjohnson at gwi.net
Wed Jun 16 18:41:16 UTC 2004
Nina Pham wrote:
> by default, how often ntpd does the synchronization? can we change the
> time interval? What are the pros and cons running ntpd? Alternative
> way of ntpd is running cron. I think by running cron, we have more
> control over time synchronization.
>
> Nina
>
>
Running ntpd is better. And although you do not have control over the
ntp time polling interval, ntpd does automatically reduce its frequency
of polling as time adjustments and drift adjustments improve the
correllation between local and reference time. It is very low overhead.
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