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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dear All, </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">I see from time to time a sysstats resets happens, which resets the counter for “ntpq -c sysstat”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">I have some server which are running very long and sysstats reset is the same as uptime. So it never happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">And there are others where is happens quite often. </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">What causes such a sysstats reset ?</font></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Obviously it’s not any counter </font></span><font face="Menlo" class="">overrun. </font></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Hans</font></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">mayer# ntpq -c sysst</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">uptime: 223144</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">sysstats reset: 3544</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">packets received: 228</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">current version: 172</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">older version: 55</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">control requests: 196</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">bad length or format: 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">authentication failed: 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">declined: 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">restricted: 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">rate limited: 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">KoD responses: 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">processed for time: 227</span></div>
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mayer# dc <<< '228 172 - 55 -p' </div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">mayer# ntpq -c sysst</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">uptime: 223215</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">sysstats reset: 15</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">packets received: 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">current version: 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">older version: 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">control requests: 197</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">bad length or format: 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">authentication failed: 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">declined: 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">restricted: 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">rate limited: 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">KoD responses: 0</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">processed for time: 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">mayer# ntpq -c ver </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ntpsec-0.9.7+1329 2017-09-14T08:50:55-0400</span></div>
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Ing. Dipl.-Ing. Hans Mayer<br class="">
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