Apparent protocol-machine bug, new top priority

[Eric S. Raymond]

Achim Gratz via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> Eric S. Raymond via devel writes:
> > Now that iburst has been fixed - and Achim reports seeing this problem
> > with iburst off - this pretty much has to be an issue deeper in the
> > protocol machine.  (I guess we should count our blessings and
> > congratulate Daniel that there haven't more of these since the big
> > refactor.)
> 
> I have gathered more observations: it is almost always the rasPi 1B+
> that kicks out its local clients and it seems to happen more often while
> it's busy with other stuff, so I think it somehow has to do with the
> speed of the NTP packets relative to the processing capabilities.
> Whether that happens because packages are retried (and then kicking off
> the rate-limiting) or packages getting the wrong source attached I don't
> know.

I'll try to reproduce on my RPis.
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