Re: [ntp:questions] Sure serial - USB with PPS performs 16% better after Windows reboot

2012-03-25 Thread Ron Frazier (NTP)
I see what you're saying. However, all the internet servers are currently noselected. So, everything on this graph represents NTPD polling the serial GPS through the serial - USB converter. I'm not particularly worried about it. I was just wondering why the system would apparently perform b

Re: [ntp:questions] Sure serial - USB with PPS performs 16% better after Windows reboot

2012-03-25 Thread Chris Albertson
Ron, Yes, I see the graph has segments. I'm guessing that NTP's clock selection process switched the set of Internet servers it was using. Would be easy to check the log. "offset" of course is the difference between two clocks. My guess is that the GPS is stable and it's the Internet that is m

[ntp:questions] Sure serial - USB with PPS performs 16% better after Windows reboot

2012-03-25 Thread Ron Frazier (NTP)
Hi all, I think I've discovered something very interesting. Just by chance, I had to take the laptop computer to someone else's house the other day to do some work. So, I shut it down and unplugged the GPS and left. When I came back, I plugged the GPS back in and rebooted. After a while, I