[ntpwg] Testing NTP performance

[TS Glassey]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Mayer" <mayer at ntp.isc.org>
To: "TS Glassey" <tglassey at earthlink.net>
Cc: "David L. Mills" <mills at udel.edu>; <ntpwg at lists.ntp.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [ntpwg] Testing NTP performance


> TS Glassey wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "David L. Mills" <mills at udel.edu>
>> Cc: <ntpwg at lists.ntp.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 2:21 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ntpwg] Testing NTP performance
>>
>>
>>> Todd,
>>>
>>> Performance criteria are no more appropriate in a formal NTP
>>> specification than they would be in a TCP formal specification.
>>
>> Duh... but they are very relevant to trhe use of NTP in production 
>> timekeeping environment's, and that was my point. The protocol as you 
>> refer to it is a model for exchanging time data but what happens after 
>> that is what we are talking about. The Jitter of the local system has 
>> little to do with the protocol either in this case.
>>
>> Todd
>
> All of which tells us that you don't understand NTP at all. Otherwise you 
> would know that all the answers are already there in the statistics.

You might want to try cutting down on the caffein and maybe get some more 
sleep.

>
> Danny