Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats jitter field mostly zero?

2012-11-27 Thread gabs
On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 6:54:17 AM UTC+8, unruh wrote: > > What kind of platform is that? > TP-LINK TL-WR841N (Atheros ar71xx), see http://code.google.com/p/openwrt-stratum1 ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.

Re: [ntp:questions] Using Trimble TSIP under Linux

2012-11-27 Thread unruh
On 2012-11-27, David Taylor wrote: > On 27/11/2012 15:13, unruh wrote: >> On 2012-11-27, David Taylor wrote: >>> Ralph, thanks for your pointer about rebuilding the kernel. Not >>> trivial, is it! >>> >>> BTW: this post seems to have fallen off my NNTP client but I had already >> >> It should be

Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats jitter field mostly zero?

2012-11-27 Thread unruh
On 2012-11-27, gabs wrote: > On Sunday, November 25, 2012 3:56:28 AM UTC+8, David Taylor wrote: >> I've just started the statistics collection on my Linux/RPi NTP server, >> and when plotting the jitter results I found that most of the values >> were zero. I don't see that on my Windows stratum

Re: [ntp:questions] Using Trimble TSIP under Linux

2012-11-27 Thread David Taylor
On 27/11/2012 15:13, unruh wrote: On 2012-11-27, David Taylor wrote: Ralph, thanks for your pointer about rebuilding the kernel. Not trivial, is it! BTW: this post seems to have fallen off my NNTP client but I had already It should be possible to compile the gpio interrupt driver as a modul

Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats jitter field mostly zero?

2012-11-27 Thread David Taylor
On 27/11/2012 16:24, gabs wrote: [] The displayed jitter in loopstats or the peer list can be different from the actual jitter of the source. This case is the reverse: low actual jitter, 15 us displayed jitter. root@OpenWrt:/tmp# tail /tmp/ntp/loops 56257 76888.554 -0.00080 6.553 0.15259

Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats jitter field mostly zero?

2012-11-27 Thread gabs
On Sunday, November 25, 2012 3:56:28 AM UTC+8, David Taylor wrote: > I've just started the statistics collection on my Linux/RPi NTP server, > and when plotting the jitter results I found that most of the values > were zero. I don't see that on my Windows stratum-1 systems. Is there > a limit

Re: [ntp:questions] Using Trimble TSIP under Linux

2012-11-27 Thread unruh
On 2012-11-27, David Taylor wrote: > Ralph, thanks for your pointer about rebuilding the kernel. Not > trivial, is it! > > BTW: this post seems to have fallen off my NNTP client but I had already It should be possible to compile the gpio interrupt driver as a module, and just compile it, not t

Re: [ntp:questions] Using Trimble TSIP under Linux

2012-11-27 Thread David Taylor
Ralph, thanks for your pointer about rebuilding the kernel. Not trivial, is it! BTW: this post seems to have fallen off my NNTP client but I had already copied it. It also seems to have posted the same message twice, of at least an earlier, uncorrected version, sigh! -- Cheers, David Web: h

Re: [ntp:questions] Using Trimble TSIP under Linux

2012-11-27 Thread David Taylor
On 26/11/2012 23:59, David Woolley wrote: David Taylor wrote: server reached over the LAN to have an offset of -0.028 milliseconds, whereas its own PPS source is reported to have an offset of -0.001 milliseconds. Is that the right sign and amount for the offsets you might expect comparing the

Re: [ntp:questions] Using Trimble TSIP under Linux

2012-11-27 Thread David Taylor
On 26/11/2012 23:59, David Woolley wrote: Offsets should be randomly distributed between + and - signs. If they are all of one sign, you are not locked up or there is a bug. They should be of s similar magnitude to the jitter. They may not be evenly distributed, because of limitations of the n

Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats jitter field mostly zero?

2012-11-27 Thread Ralph Aichinger
David Taylor wrote: > BTW: I would like to get step-by-step instructions for recompiling the > kernel with the gpio-pps added, as I'm using someone else's kernel and I > may need to make my own when upgrading in the future. I did it with http://elinux.org/RPi_Kernel_Compilation After zcat /pr

Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats jitter field mostly zero?

2012-11-27 Thread David Taylor
On 26/11/2012 21:27, Dave Morgan wrote: [] My Pi ntp server ... syncing to other ntp pool servers only (not stratum 1 yet) 56257 943.692 0.000152844 -4.041 0.000616901 0.028755 10 56257 2672.693 0.000354418 -4.038 0.000581443 0.026910 10 56257 3558.700 -0.000495198 -4.040 0.000621327 0.025178 10

Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats jitter field mostly zero?

2012-11-27 Thread David Taylor
On 27/11/2012 07:05, james machado wrote: [] on my RPi running as at stratum 1 [] i checked my loopstats for the last 47,000 odd lines of loopstats I have had 7 lines where the jitter has not been zero. james Thanks, James! Good to know I am not alone! BTW: I would like to get step-by-step