Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black & Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-23 Thread Neil Schroeder
The other key key key item is make sure you hand build yourself a 3.14 or .16 kernel. NS On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:41:56 -0400 > Paul wrote: > > > 1) Did you start out using the attached patch antenna? D Drown implies > > successfully using

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black & Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-23 Thread Attila Kinali
On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:41:56 -0400 Paul wrote: > 1) Did you start out using the attached patch antenna? D Drown implies > successfully using the patch on the Adafruit until it was soldered in > place. He fixed that by switching to an external antenna. I've never had > any success with attached

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black & Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-22 Thread Paul
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:23 PM, David J Taylor < david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > I've just put up my first draft of a comparison of these two popular > devices as NTP servers: > > Comments welcomed - I know it's an imperfect test! > ... Perhaps there are some services or background task

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black & Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-22 Thread Attila Kinali
On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 14:14:01 - "David J Taylor" wrote: > Yes, my posting was at least in part for help with resolving the much higher > CPU load seen on a default BBB installation than on an RPi setup. If you > could provide a list of services and cron jobs to be disabled, and a brief > g

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black & Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-22 Thread Chris Albertson
I'm surprised you did not kill off those other tasks. Looks like you might be running a web server, building an index or something. Were the /etc/ntp.conf files the same on Pi and BBB? Test is not valid unless both computers are running the same things. On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Graham

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black & Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-22 Thread Chuck Harris
One of those services is likely the full blown web server that runs on the BBB to allow you to view the help pages. -Chuck Harris Attila Kinali wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:23:30 - "David J Taylor" wrote: I've just put up my first draft of a comparison of these two popular devices as NT

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black & Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-22 Thread David J Taylor
From: Attila Kinali Something is wrong here. I would expect the BBB to perform at least as well as the rpi (after all, the BBB has an ethernet MAC with IEEE1588 support, while the rpi is basically a glorified USB controller with attached graphics card). You are most likely running services on th

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black & Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-22 Thread Attila Kinali
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:23:30 - "David J Taylor" wrote: > I've just put up my first draft of a comparison of these two popular devices > as NTP servers: > > http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/BBB-vs-RPi.html > > Comments welcomed - I know it's an imperfect test! Something is wrong here. I would

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black & Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-21 Thread Graham / KE9H
David: On the BBB, were you running the fully loaded release, or the minimum "console" version of the OS? Which specific version of the OS? Thanks, --- Graham == On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:23 AM, David J Taylor < david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > Folks, > > I've just put up my first draf

[time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black & Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-21 Thread David J Taylor
Folks, I've just put up my first draft of a comparison of these two popular devices as NTP servers: http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/BBB-vs-RPi.html Comments welcomed - I know it's an imperfect test! Cheers, David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software written to your requirements Web: http://