Re: [ntp:questions] Support for tickless systems

2014-11-19 Thread Jack Ryan
3.17 what? Miroslav Lichvar mlich...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:09:42AM +, David Taylor wrote: In bug 2314, I reported that the jitter was always reported as 0 soon after NTP had started, and this was traced to the Linux in use on the Raspberry Pi being tickless.

[ntp:questions] NTP for latency measurement

2013-01-28 Thread jack flora
Hi, I would like to know if NTP can be used to measure latency between publishers and subscribers in a distributed computing environment. NTP is configured on all the nodes. How do I use the statistics collected on both the nodes to measure latency. Is there any tool that I can use for the same?

Re: [ntp:questions] help with setting up NTP on windows with a USB GPS

2009-12-04 Thread jack
on a Windows box. PS: I experimented with falling/rising edge of the 1PPS and now the difference between NTP and my IRIG board is a few milliseconds. Jack I tire of the anti-Windows mantra which sometimes appears in this group, particularly when it occurs with no consideration for the task in hand

Re: [ntp:questions] help with setting up NTP on windows with a USB GPS

2009-12-02 Thread jack
David, I got this going and everything is working well. However, comparing NTP time to an IRIG board time with a GPS antenna, I see a difference of 100ms. Not sure where this came from. Jack On Dec 2, 2:29 am, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.not-this- bit.nor-this-part.co.uk.invalid

Re: [ntp:questions] help with setting up NTP on windows with a USB GPS

2009-12-01 Thread jack
the same accuracy? When I tried to read time at 60Hz, I found that the times returned are not periodic, sometimes even the same. Jack On Dec 1, 9:28 am, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.not-this- bit.nor-this-part.co.uk.invalid wrote: Dave Baxter g8...@nospam.uko2.co.uk wrote in message

Re: [ntp:questions] help with setting up NTP on windows with a USB GPS

2009-12-01 Thread jack
David, I looked at timeGetTime() and I found it only gives out relative time (since Windows was started). Is it possible to query NTP server to get an accurate starting time? jack On Dec 1, 1:15 pm, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.not-this- bit.nor-this-part.co.uk.invalid wrote: jack

Re: [ntp:questions] help with setting up NTP on windows with a USB GPS

2009-12-01 Thread jack
On Dec 1, 5:11 pm, Dave Hart daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 1 16:58 UTC, jack wrote: I have a related question: given that my system clock is synced to an external GPS within ms, how do I read time that gives me the same accuracy? When I tried to read time at 60Hz, I found that the times

Re: [ntp:questions] help with setting up NTP on windows with a USB GPS

2009-11-30 Thread jack
0.000 0.000 In ntpd.conf, I have server 127.127.20.1 minpoll 4 prefer server 127.127.22.1 minpoll 4 GPS is attached to COM1. jack On Nov 30, 11:12 am, Dave Hart daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 30, 3:51 pm, jack j.jack.w...@gmail.com wrote: NTP wouldn't start automatically. The system

Re: [ntp:questions] help with setting up NTP on windows with a USB GPS

2009-11-27 Thread jack
time-sensitive data (time stamped). I left the device running overnight and I noticed it computed an offset at one time. It's currently not updating (everything is zero now). I will read carefully what Dave Hart said and follow his advice. Thanks to everyone for your help. Jack On Nov 27, 1:51 am

Re: [ntp:questions] help with setting up NTP on windows with a USB GPS

2009-11-27 Thread jack
out how to switch to kernel mode. I have 1) serialpps.sys 2) the correspond DLL 3) the environment variable that points to the DLL I am unclear as to what should be done to switch to kernel mode. Thanks to all for the help. Jack On Nov 27, 9:12 am, jack j.jack.w...@gmail.com wrote: David, You

Re: [ntp:questions] help with setting up NTP on windows with a USB GPS

2009-11-27 Thread jack
Just to let everyone know that the u-blox GPS works well now. The offset is 0.02ms with jitter at 0.002ms. My other GPS with only USB out has an offset of 5ms and jitter of 2.5ms. Jack On Nov 27, 11:17 am, David Lord sn...@lordynet.org wrote: jack wrote: You assumed right. I did start

Re: [ntp:questions] help with setting up NTP on windows with a USB GPS

2009-11-27 Thread jack
David, Would you mind looking up the model number of the Sitecom serial to USB converter that has the DCD line? I am very interested in a solution like that. Jack On Nov 27, 2:11 pm, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.not-this- bit.nor-this-part.co.uk.invalid wrote: Just to let everyone

[ntp:questions] help with setting up NTP on windows with a USB GPS

2009-11-26 Thread jack
to read all documents available. The GPS I have is from ublox and it can output 1PPS signal, which I instend to use later with an RS232 port. Thanks in advance. jack ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ntp:questions] help with setting up NTP on windows with a USB GPS

2009-11-26 Thread jack
David, I read instructions on your web site especially the section on USB GPS receivers. Version 4.2.4 dated March 15 2009 is the latest on Dave Hart's website. Why do you get 4.2.5 from? jack On Nov 26, 12:20 pm, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.not- this-bit.nor-this-part.co.uk.invalid

Re: [ntp:questions] help with setting up NTP on windows with a USB GPS

2009-11-26 Thread jack
David, I switched to a machine with an RS232 port and also found version 4.2.5. NTP now opens port COM1 with no problem. However, status shows that it doesn't seem to be reading from GPS since all values (jitter, offset etc) are 0. Any suggestions? Jack On Nov 26, 1:15 pm, jack j.jack.w

Re: [ntp:questions] help with setting up NTP on windows with a USB GPS

2009-11-26 Thread jack
for about 10 minutes, I saw some values after rebooting the machine but they disappeared quickly. Thanks. jack ps: I am using the latest NTP from Dave Hart's website. I also installed serialpps.sys. On Nov 26, 2:52 pm, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.not-this- bit.nor

Re: [ntp:questions] help with setting up NTP on windows with a USB GPS

2009-11-26 Thread jack
Monitor was stuck at Please wait. jack On Nov 26, 4:30 pm, jack j.jack.w...@gmail.com wrote: David, I only have the following in the configure file: server 127.127.20.1 minpoll 4 prefer I found the following entry in the log file: Using user-mode PPS timestamp Does it mean NTP reads

Re: [ntp:questions] best gps receiver for time synchronization

2009-03-11 Thread jack
it through interruption? Polling doesn't sound good to me. Can somebody point me to some references please? Thanks to all who participated in this discussion. Jack On Mar 10, 6:11 pm, David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid wrote: jack wrote: I cannot switch to Linux because my main

Re: [ntp:questions] best gps receiver for time synchronization

2009-03-10 Thread jack
that outputs at a consistent pace (better if the output can be configured so I only receive time stamps). Any recommendations wrt that? Thanks again. Jack On Mar 10, 4:59 am, Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de wrote: Jack, jack wrote: Hi all, I am trying to sync my Windows box

Re: [ntp:questions] best gps receiver for time synchronization

2009-03-10 Thread jack
I cannot switch to Linux because my main application runs only on Windows. It would take us a long time to port to Linux. If I can get to millisecond accuracy, I'd be happy. Jack On Mar 10, 11:56 am, Dave Hart daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 10, 3:44 pm, Richard B. Gilbert rgilber

Re: [ntp:questions] best gps receiver for time synchronization

2009-03-10 Thread jack
in the future to go with a system that can take advantage of the 1PPS signal. jack On Mar 10, 2:18 pm, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.neither- this-bit.nor-this.co.uk wrote: Unruh wrote: [] The newer x version appears to be a lot more sensitive, at the expense of somewhat higher

[ntp:questions] best gps receiver for time synchronization

2009-03-09 Thread jack
) in terms of consistencies in its output? 2) what kind of accuracy can i expect? Thanks to all. Jack ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions