ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at acm.org> wrote:

> ... Once ntpd decides to continuously step, something is broken.

Is there some reason why, as long as it is not yet synced, ntpd
should not do this sort of calculation and rate correction itself
rather than insist on having a human perform the calculation and
enter the adjustment?