"David L. Mills" wrote in message
news:4c8b9ab7.2050...@udel.edu...
> David Woolley wrote:
>> David L. Mills wrote:
>>> Running a precision time server on a busy public machine with a
>>> widely varying load is not a good idea and I have no interest in
>>> that.
>>
>> As indicated by the sort of
David,
I have no idea where you are coming from. At my feet are two GPS/CDMA
time servers running embedded Linux systems. I have two more on campus
plus two dedicated Unix machines connected to GPS receivers. NIST has
about a dozen dedicated time servers running FreeBSD. USNO has about a
doze
David,
With due respect, your comment has nothing to do with the issue. Allan
deviation is between a quartz crystal oscillator, timer interrupt,
interpolation mechanism and a kerel syscall to read. the clock. It has
nothing whatsoever to do with virtual machines.
Dave
David Woolley wrote:
David L. Mills wrote:
I beg to differ. All the machines I used are PCs or similar
workstations. They really and truly behave according to an exponential
As you note in another reply, you seem to use them in a way that is
abnormal for most users of NTP, i.e. as dedicated real machines in wel
David L. Mills wrote:
Bill,
Running a precision time server on a busy public machine with a widely
varying load is not a good idea and I have no interest in that. Running
As indicated by the sort of questions the group is getting recently, it
is becoming the norm to run time servers on virt
