Re: [chrony-users] GPS / Chrony NTP server config questions

2017-11-16 Thread Bill Unruh
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Rob Janssen wrote: Bill Unruh wrote: I am using chrony with serial PPS on a number of different machines, and I see the 6-7 us figure on HP Proliant systems while on Dell PowerEdge sytems it is more like 1us. No idea where the difference comes from. How do you measure

Re: [chrony-users] GPS / Chrony NTP server config questions

2017-11-16 Thread Bill Unruh
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Denny Page wrote: On Nov 16, 2017, at 10:32, Bill Unruh wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Denny Page wrote: Interrupt latency for character devices in Linux is 6-7 us, even with no other activity. You It has been a while but I ran tests on a system in which I changed the

Re: [chrony-users] GPS / Chrony NTP server config questions

2017-11-16 Thread Rob Janssen
Bill Unruh wrote: I am using chrony with serial PPS on a number of different machines, and I see the 6-7 us figure on HP Proliant systems while on Dell PowerEdge sytems it is more like 1us. No idea where the difference comes from. How do you measure that latency? It does seem that the parall

Re: [chrony-users] GPS / Chrony NTP server config questions

2017-11-16 Thread Denny Page
> On Nov 16, 2017, at 10:32, Bill Unruh wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Denny Page wrote: > >> Interrupt latency for character devices in Linux is 6-7 us, even with no >> other activity. You > > It has been a while but I ran tests on a system in which I changed the state > of a parallel port

Re: [chrony-users] GPS / Chrony NTP server config questions

2017-11-16 Thread Bill Unruh
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Rob Janssen wrote: Bill Unruh wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Denny Page wrote: Interrupt latency for character devices in Linux is 6-7 us, even with no other activity. You It has been a while but I ran tests on a system in which I changed the state of a parallel port

Re: [chrony-users] GPS / Chrony NTP server config questions

2017-11-16 Thread Rob Janssen
Bill Unruh wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Denny Page wrote: Interrupt latency for character devices in Linux is 6-7 us, even with no other activity. You It has been a while but I ran tests on a system in which I changed the state of a parallel port pin and fed that into an interrupt grabbing

Re: [chrony-users] GPS / Chrony NTP server config questions

2017-11-16 Thread Bill Unruh
It has now been suggested to you at least by two different people-- hook your system up to the network, and do a timing using a nearby ntp server. That will give you of the order of 10-20us accuracy, and you can see if that time is the same as your pps time. I have no idea how accurate gpsd is.

Re: [chrony-users] GPS / Chrony NTP server config questions

2017-11-16 Thread Bill Unruh
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Denny Page wrote: Interrupt latency for character devices in Linux is 6-7 us, even with no other activity. You It has been a while but I ran tests on a system in which I changed the state of a parallel port pin and fed that into an interrupt grabbing the system time ju

Re: [chrony-users] GPS / Chrony NTP server config questions

2017-11-16 Thread Joe Smith
I'm not too concerned about the accuracy of the PPS. This particular GPS receiver is pretty high quality. https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-ultimate-gps/overview It delivers the NMEA data and the PPS. A number of online resources describing similar projects and the GPSD Time Service HOWTO page a

Re: [chrony-users] GPS / Chrony NTP server config questions

2017-11-16 Thread Denny Page
Interrupt latency for character devices in Linux is 6-7 us, even with no other activity. You can get better than this using a gpio and spinning on it, but I haven’t seen anyone do this with with serial pps. Denny > On Nov 16, 2017, at 09:57, Bill Unruh wrote: > > The PPS accuracy is largely

Re: [chrony-users] GPS / Chrony NTP server config questions

2017-11-16 Thread Bill Unruh
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Re: [chrony-users] GPS / Chrony NTP server config questions

2017-11-16 Thread Joe Smith
I'm trying to determine the best way to get an idea of my clock accuracy now that I'm getting the PPS signals. Is that "chronyc tracking"? When I do "chronyc sources" or "chronyc sourcestats" those seem to indicate NMEA offsets that are on the order of 40-60ms. debian@beaglebone:~$ chronyc sources