On 10/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Romain Kang</b> <<a href="mailto:romain@kzsu.stanford.edu">romain@kzsu.stanford.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I agree with David Brodbeck's assessment about your torrent traffic.<br>It sounds like your hardware is fine. It's just that you can't<br>trust NTP under those circumstances.</blockquote><div><br>Indeed. I limited the upload and suddenly ntpq -p looked a whole lot friendlier; furthermore, ntpd seems to be syncing up the clock reliably now. Thanks, David! And thanks to everyone else! It's a relief to see times that are relatively correct.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">However, to answer the hypothetical case, it's sometimes possible<br>to make some OS adjustments to get around various hardware tics.
</blockquote><div><br>Good to know. it's not an issue at the moment, but I'm glad there are alternatives and workarounds. Hopefully it won't come to that.<br><br>Thanks again!<br><br>Jack.</div></div>