Re: [time-nuts] weird Raspberry PPS+GPS NTP server behaviour

2020-03-24 Thread David J Taylor via time-nuts
Folks, Thanks for all the help. I've put up a simple Web page showing the program and its results here: https://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-ntpheat.html A good gain on that Raspberry Pi in a centrally heated room and nearer the radiator than it should be. Cheers, David --

Re: [time-nuts] weird Raspberry PPS+GPS NTP server behaviour

2020-03-03 Thread David J Taylor via time-nuts
From: folkert You can also keep the GPU busy. That'll work as well with the bonus that the main cpu stays mostly idle (iirc) for other tasks. https://vanheusden.com/ntpheat.cpp requires https://github.com/mn416/QPULib === That's neat! Thanks!

Re: [time-nuts] weird Raspberry PPS+GPS NTP server behaviour

2020-03-03 Thread ASSI
[sorry for breaking the threading, I'm replying from the list archive since gmane.io does not have this list anymore] Hi David, [ntpheat] > I didn't know about that program and I'd like to try it here. A neat idea. > Is it available stand-alone - ready to run? I could compile it here given >

Re: [time-nuts] weird Raspberry PPS+GPS NTP server behaviour

2020-03-03 Thread folkert
> Thanks, Adam and Hal. I will have a play. I need to decide which of my > flock to use, as some already sit in a fairly stable environment, and others > are doing real work which may be affected by running the CPU at 100%. > > OK, there's a non-critical one rather nearer to a CH radiator than

Re: [time-nuts] weird Raspberry PPS+GPS NTP server behaviour

2020-03-03 Thread David J Taylor via time-nuts
The source code is here: https://github.com/ntpsec/ntpsec/blob/master/contrib/ntpheat It imports ntp.util. But from my rudimentary knowledge of Python I see that it only uses it to get version number. So I think removing lines 24-29 and 51-53 should make it work without ntpsec. Cheers, Adam

Re: [time-nuts] weird Raspberry PPS+GPS NTP server behaviour

2020-03-02 Thread Adam Kumiszcza
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 7:58 PM David J Taylor via time-nuts < time-nuts@lists.febo.com> wrote: > It's ~65°C on purpose. I'm using ntpheat ( > https://blog.ntpsec.org/2017/02/01/heat-it-up.html) to keep stable > temperature no matter what it does. It turns my raspberry into kind of OCXO > :) >

Re: [time-nuts] weird Raspberry PPS+GPS NTP server behaviour

2020-03-02 Thread Hal Murray
> I didn't know about that program and I'd like to try it here. A neat idea. > Is it available stand-alone - ready to run? I could compile it here given > the source, but not if it has dozens of dependencies on NTPsec, which I > don't use. It's stand alone python code. There is nothing

Re: [time-nuts] weird Raspberry PPS+GPS NTP server behaviour

2020-03-02 Thread David J Taylor via time-nuts
It's ~65°C on purpose. I'm using ntpheat ( https://blog.ntpsec.org/2017/02/01/heat-it-up.html) to keep stable temperature no matter what it does. It turns my raspberry into kind of OCXO :) Anyway, ntpheat runs there for months, so I guess it's not the culprit. Cheers, Adam

Re: [time-nuts] weird Raspberry PPS+GPS NTP server behaviour

2020-03-02 Thread Adam Kumiszcza
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 5:23 PM David J Taylor via time-nuts < time-nuts@lists.febo.com> wrote: > Hi! > > For several weeks I'm seeing strange behavior of my Raspberry Pi based NTP > server with Uputronics GPS PPS expansion board (Ublox MAX-M8Q chip). > Several weeks ago the mean daily jitter was

Re: [time-nuts] weird Raspberry PPS+GPS NTP server behaviour

2020-03-02 Thread David J Taylor via time-nuts
Hi! For several weeks I'm seeing strange behavior of my Raspberry Pi based NTP server with Uputronics GPS PPS expansion board (Ublox MAX-M8Q chip). Several weeks ago the mean daily jitter was below 300 ns, offset didn't exceed ±1 µs, provided no restart or configuration change was made. Now the