From: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:51:19 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: doc: improve maxdistance description
X-Git-Tag: 2.2~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7496a14d2da27d8e6318e763aac925e5c4870645;p=thirdparty%2Fchrony.git

doc: improve maxdistance description
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diff --git a/chrony.texi.in b/chrony.texi.in
index c9b7e43a..25eb23d4 100644
--- a/chrony.texi.in
+++ b/chrony.texi.in
@@ -2394,7 +2394,11 @@ includes the accumulated dispersion, which may be large when the source is no
 longer synchronised, and half of the total round-trip delay to the primary
 source.
 
-By default, the maximum distance is 3 seconds.
+By default, the maximum root distance is 3 seconds.
+
+Setting @code{maxdistance} to a larger value can be useful to allow
+synchronisation with a server that only has a very infrequent connection to its
+sources and can accumulate a large dispersion between updates of its clock.
 
 The syntax is