testing performance
Gary E. Miller
gem at rellim.com
Wed Aug 7 02:05:13 UTC 2024
Yo Hal!
On Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:48:11 -0700
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
> [From https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/-/merge_requests/1399]
>
> Gary said:
>
> > But I agree with you that howto run non-root needs to be
> > documented, and I would also like tests in ntpd to verify the
> > needed CAPS to run as designed.
>
> I expect it will crash if it doesn't have the appropriate caps.
> Maybe blunder on after an error message if it can't open something
> needed by a refclock.
Add an option, people will use it. Since this one will be hard to use
properly, the documentation and error messages need to be very good.
> > Then we can test how bad the performance really is.
>
> What do you have in mind?
I would just look at jitter. I expect it to be very bad.
> I'm scheming to setup a chain of servers to see if the PLLs are
> stable.
Servers, hosting containers of serrvers. With ntpd running in the server
in the containr. I have no idea how to tell the container to allow
adj_time() to work.
RGDS
GARY
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