From 7496a14d2da27d8e6318e763aac925e5c4870645 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miroslav Lichvar Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:51:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: improve maxdistance description --- chrony.texi.in | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- 2.47.2