Re: Figures of merit for time servers

2016-05-23 Thread Clark B. Wierda
Yo, Gary! On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Gary E. Miller wrote: > > The NTP doc pretty much defines our topic words. > > http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/NTPRelatedDefinitions We should use the standard to the extent reasonable. > > > But it does get a bit sloppy on some terms like

Re: We need a release checklist

2016-05-23 Thread Clark B. Wierda
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Hal Murray wrote: > > fallenpega...@gmail.com said: > > There should be a tag in gitlab. If there is not, it is my mistake, and > I > > will fix it this evening. ..m > > k...@roeckx.be said: > > There are also no releases on ftp://ftp.ntpsec.org/pub/releases/,

Figures of merit for time servers

2016-05-23 Thread Clark B. Wierda
Looks like a good time for this question: What are the figures of merit that we should be tracking when monitoring the quality of servers using NTP for exchange? I understand that these values will factor differently with different user groups, but the characteristics we can measure should be fai

Re: Figures of merit for time servers

2016-05-23 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Clark! On Mon, 23 May 2016 21:47:39 -0400 "Clark B. Wierda" wrote: > What are the figures of merit that we should be tracking when > monitoring the quality of servers using NTP for exchange? I think you have the basics: offset, dispersion, jitter, wander. Plus the 50%, 95% and 90% bounds of

Re: PPS over USB

2016-05-23 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Eric! On Mon, 23 May 2016 20:20:10 -0400 "Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > Gary E. Miller : > > I think we gotta send less grunt work to Eric when we can do it > > ourselves. > > I'm sorry, but yes, you do need to do that. Glad we are on the same page. > You're both welcome to test-farm account

Re: PPS over USB

2016-05-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Gary E. Miller : > I think we gotta send less grunt work to Eric when we can do it ourselves. I'm sorry, but yes, you do need to do that. I'm swamped with both small and large tasks. I have to either offload or refuse some small tasks that others can do in order to execute tasks that presently

Re: Accounts on my bastion host for test farm access

2016-05-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mark Atwood : > Please set an account up on thyrsus.com for me. > > > You can grab SSH keys like so: > curl -O https://github.com/.keys > > > So thus get mine at https://github.com/fallenpegasus.keys The fallenpegasus account noe exisys at thyrsus.com. I copied your keys to ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

Re: PPS over USB

2016-05-23 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Hal! On Mon, 23 May 2016 01:16:16 -0700 Hal Murray wrote: > g...@rellim.com said: > >> PPS over USB will be more accurate with a fudge factor. > > Gack, no. The USB delay is much less than the sample interval on > > the USB 1.1 bus. > > I don't understand what you are trying to say. I

Re: Accounts on my bastion host for test farm access

2016-05-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mark Atwood : > Please set an account up on thyrsus.com for me. > > > You can grab SSH keys like so: > curl -O https://github.com/.keys > > > So thus get mine at https://github.com/fallenpegasus.keys Username fallenpegasus, or what? -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymo

Re: Accounts on my bastion host for test farm access

2016-05-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Clark B. Wierda : > BTW, that cluster was all RPi Bs. I noticed. The lab will be mostly 3s, which complicates the cable management because of the switch to the side-mounted power connector. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ___

Re: Accounts on my bastion host for test farm access

2016-05-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mark Atwood : > And while I was not specifically thinking about "benchmarking different > ntp.conf setups and measuring comparative offsets and jitter", I was > thinking that it is generally true that the unknown unknowns start turning > into known unknowns when actual reality gets to have a seat a

Monitoring NTP servers

2016-05-23 Thread Hal Murray
cbwie...@gmail.com said: > One thing I'm trying to develop is a method to track multiple system > simultaneously. I'm thinking of a monitor system with its own time base > using NTP to query state from each of the test systems. > I may write the first version in Python wrapping ntpdig. You obv

Re: We need a release checklist

2016-05-23 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 02:38:42PM -0700, Hal Murray wrote: > > fallenpega...@gmail.com said: > > There should be a tag in gitlab. If there is not, it is my mistake, and I > > will fix it this evening. ..m > > k...@roeckx.be said: > > There are also no releases on ftp://ftp.ntpsec.org/pub/rel

We need a release checklist

2016-05-23 Thread Hal Murray
fallenpega...@gmail.com said: > There should be a tag in gitlab. If there is not, it is my mistake, and I > will fix it this evening. ..m k...@roeckx.be said: > There are also no releases on ftp://ftp.ntpsec.org/pub/releases/, 0.9.1 is > the latest. I'll make a file if people feed me ideas.

Re: Accounts on my bastion host for test farm access

2016-05-23 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Clark! On Mon, 23 May 2016 17:25:42 -0400 "Clark B. Wierda" wrote: > One thing I'm trying to develop is a method to track multiple system > simultaneously. I'm thinking of a monitor system with its own time > base using NTP to query state from each of the test systems. I have a PTP server a

Re: Accounts on my bastion host for test farm access

2016-05-23 Thread Clark B. Wierda
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Gary E. Miller wrote: > Yo Dan! > > On Mon, 23 May 2016 16:06:19 -0500 > Dan Drown wrote: > > > I'd be interested in installing these bits: > > > > https://github.com/ddrown/chrony-graph - graphs (I have a ntpd port > > of this already, not yet published) > > -

Re: Accounts on my bastion host for test farm access

2016-05-23 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Dan! On Mon, 23 May 2016 16:06:19 -0500 Dan Drown wrote: > I'd be interested in installing these bits: > > https://github.com/ddrown/chrony-graph - graphs (I have a ntpd port > of this already, not yet published) > - example output: https://dan.drown.org/rpi/latest/ > > https://github.com

Re: Accounts on my bastion host for test farm access

2016-05-23 Thread Clark B. Wierda
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > Funniest possibility: If I need a rack for these systems, > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq5nrHz9I94 > > A functional rack made of legos. That's worth some geekery points > right there. > -- >

Re: Accounts on my bastion host for test farm access

2016-05-23 Thread Dan Drown
Quoting e...@thyrsus.com: Really good plans have happy consequences one didn't foresee. But also complicating ones. Mark encouraged me to work on the Microserver HOWTO as a recruitment device for future time-service experts and, implicitly, so I would learn more about how NTP works from the outs

Re: Accounts on my bastion host for test farm access

2016-05-23 Thread Mark Atwood
And while I was not specifically thinking about "benchmarking different ntp.conf setups and measuring comparative offsets and jitter", I was thinking that it is generally true that the unknown unknowns start turning into known unknowns when actual reality gets to have a seat at the table. I saw tha

Re: Accounts on my bastion host for test farm access

2016-05-23 Thread Mark Atwood
Please set an account up on thyrsus.com for me. You can grab SSH keys like so: curl -O https://github.com/.keys So thus get mine at https://github.com/fallenpegasus.keys ..m On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:54 PM Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Really good plans have happy consequences one didn't forese

Re: Release of NTPSec 0.9.3

2016-05-23 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 08:51:06PM +, Mark Atwood wrote: > There should be a tag in gitlab. If there is not, it is my mistake, and I > will fix it this evening. ..m There are also no releases on ftp://ftp.ntpsec.org/pub/releases/, 0.9.1 is the latest. Kurt ___

Accounts on my bastion host for test farm access

2016-05-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Really good plans have happy consequences one didn't foresee. But also complicating ones. Mark encouraged me to work on the Microserver HOWTO as a recruitment device for future time-service experts and, implicitly, so I would learn more about how NTP works from the outside. Those were good reasons

Re: Release of NTPSec 0.9.3

2016-05-23 Thread Mark Atwood
There should be a tag in gitlab. If there is not, it is my mistake, and I will fix it this evening. ..m On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 12:37 PM Gregory Boyce wrote: > Folks, > > I was wondering what the status was of the 0.9.3 release. I see two > checkins from Mark on the 18th which seem to indica

Re: PPS over USB

2016-05-23 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Dan! On Mon, 23 May 2016 11:41:26 -0500 Dan Drown wrote: > I'm using this as my fudge (I think I'm getting the trailing edge of > a 100ms pulse): You know you can tell your Pi to use the other edge? It requires a reboot. Something like this will do it: https://community.freescale.com/thre

Release of NTPSec 0.9.3

2016-05-23 Thread Gregory Boyce
Folks, I was wondering what the status was of the 0.9.3 release. I see two checkins from Mark on the 18th which seem to indicate that development for 0.9.4 had begun, but there is not actually an 0.9.3 tag in gitlab. Was this an oversight, or is there something being worked through? -- Greg ___

Re: PPS over USB

2016-05-23 Thread Dan Drown
Quoting Hal Murray : dan-...@drown.org said: Here's 7 days worth of data: https://dan.drown.org/rpi/usb-vs-gpio-pps.html Interesting graphs. Thanks. What sort of setup were you using? I assume the HAT graph was using data from a system using the HAT to set the time. Was the USB graph using

Re: PPS over USB

2016-05-23 Thread Hal Murray
dan-...@drown.org said: > Here's 7 days worth of data: > https://dan.drown.org/rpi/usb-vs-gpio-pps.html Interesting graphs. Thanks. What sort of setup were you using? I assume the HAT graph was using data from a system using the HAT to set the time. Was the USB graph using the USB-PPS for

Re: PPS over USB

2016-05-23 Thread Dan Drown
Quoting "Eric S. Raymond" : Dan Drown : >Eric: Please plug your 701W into your Pi with HAT and collect some data. Here's 7 days worth of data: https://dan.drown.org/rpi/usb-vs-gpio-pps.html The Rapsberry Pi 2's GPIO-PPS based local clock offsets at 0.1 percentile and 99.9 percentile were -3.6

Re: PPS over USB

2016-05-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Dan Drown : > >Eric: Please plug your 701W into your Pi with HAT and collect some data. > > Here's 7 days worth of data: > > https://dan.drown.org/rpi/usb-vs-gpio-pps.html > > The Rapsberry Pi 2's GPIO-PPS based local clock offsets at 0.1 percentile > and 99.9 percentile were -3.61 microseconds

Re: PPS over USB

2016-05-23 Thread Dan Drown
Quoting Hal Murray : PPS over USB will be off on average of 1/2 the polling interval. It's easy to see if you have a decent place to stand. In some sense, it's not a big deal. On the other, it's a systematic error so it's silly not to document the fix, especially in a document that is mostly c

PPS over USB

2016-05-23 Thread Hal Murray
g...@rellim.com said: >> PPS over USB will be more accurate with a fudge factor. > Gack, no. The USB delay is much less than the sample interval on the USB > 1.1 bus. I don't understand what you are trying to say. PPS over USB will be off on average of 1/2 the polling interval. It's easy to