[systemd-devel] timesyncd: Frequent polling when no server could be reached

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 22.08.14 10:13, Miroslav Lichvar (mlichvar at redhat.com) wrote:

> > Polluting my log this way. Is is possible to inhibit that behavior? Maybe 
> > trying a couple of times, then giving up until next network status change.
> 
> Hm, a well behaved client reduces its polling rate exponentially when
> it doesn't receive a reply to avoid overloading the servers and
> network congestion.

So far there's some ratelimit applied to avoid flooding
servers. However, we should probably extend this into some exponential
backoff logic.

> BTW, I was getting segfaults with current git in sd_resolve_getaddrinfo()
> in manager_connect() when doing the tests, removing the
> server_name_flush_addresses() call seems to fix it.

Hmm, this sounds like a ref counting issue in sd_resolve. I am on it.

> > Another question I have is about the NTP status output of timedatectl.
> > 
> > Right now (with ntpd running) it says:
> > 
> > NTP enabled: yes
> > NTP synchronized: no
> >  
> > I suppose it need some more uptime than the 11 minutes I have currently?
> 
> Possibly, ntpd needs to clear the STA_UNSYNC flag in adjtimex to mark
> the clock as synchronized.

Kay, can you comment?

Lennart

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