We volunteered ntp.cs.uu.nl for extra capacity for the Turkish ntp pool, and the results are quite visible in the ntp.cs.uu.nl statistics. Suddenly peaks are near 5000 packets per second. But ntpd (and the freebsd kernel) deal with it without problems.
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