Yo Miroslav!

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:48:09 +0100
Miroslav Lichvar <mlich...@redhat.com> wrote:

> > > One other tidbit is that I210 supports EEE, which can affect
> > > jitter, although I wouldn't expect it on that level. You can try
> > > turning this off via ethtool (ethtool --set-eee ethX eee off) to
> > > see if that helps.
> > 
> > I'll try that next week.  But my problem is offset.  Plus chronyd
> > doing somthing wrong as no way there is 1000 nSec jitter, I can see
> > the offset jumping around!
> 
> The default precision of the SHM refclock in chrony is 1 microsecond,
> it won't report jitter smaller than that. Add "precision 1e-9" to the
> SHM line in your chrony.conf to fix that.

Ah, that explains a lot.  Will that fix the jitter computation?

> Ideally chronyd would be using
> the value from the SHM samples, but some clients didn't set this
> correctly, so it is currently ignored.

Easy to handle.  ntpd sets the precision to -20 when it opens the
shm.  If the client never updates the precision that is now OK.  If
the client does update the precision even better.

RGDS
GARY
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