[time-nuts] Sync Changing constantly

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <1289899976.4809.0.camel at sophie>, Chris H writes:
>This is from my syslog...
>
>Nov 16 20:52:46 chris-laptop ntpd[14189]: synchronized to
>GPS_PALISADE(0), stratum 0
>
>Nov 16 20:58:52 chris-laptop ntpd[14189]: synchronized to
>202.46.181.123, stratum 1

You have too many servers configured, that makes the clock selection
algorithm unfaithfull.

In general you should have only 3 selectable servers, max 5.

You can mark servers you just want to monitor with the "noselect"
keyword to prevent them from becoming selectable.

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