Re: [chrony-dev] handling of unstable sources

[Frank Muzzulini <frank.muzzulini@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> Ok, it's exactly as you said, 10.10.9.14 is almost always prefered
> because it reports zero root dispersion. And when it makes the 5ms
> correction it may be marked as jittery and 10.10.9.13 will be selected
> as it's the only selectable source.

So Mills' conservative calculations lost against the claimed precision 
of a stupid implementation. I admit that this is hard to cope with 
automatically.

Maybe you can add a minimum root dispersion to be used when a source 
claims to be more precise than is reasonable.

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