conf: allocate sources dynamically

This removes the limits on maximum number of sources specified by the
initstepslew, server and refclock directives in the config file.
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Miroslav Lichvar
2014-09-24 14:59:20 +02:00
parent 9e71932c2e
commit 75fd327222
2 changed files with 64 additions and 62 deletions

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@@ -1722,7 +1722,7 @@ used instead. This makes it easier to restart @code{chronyd} whilst the
system is in normal operation.
The @code{initstepslew} directive takes a threshold and a list of NTP
servers as arguments. A maximum of 8 will be used. Each of the servers
servers as arguments. Each of the servers
is rapidly polled several times, and a majority voting mechanism used to
find the most likely range of system clock error that is present. A
step (or slew) is applied to the system clock to correct this error.