Greetings from Wales. I'm not sure whether this august forum is the
appropriate place to ask a question about PC timekeeping, but in the hope
that someone can point me in the right direction I'll ask anyway ;-)
I have just replaced Windows XP with Windows 7. The PC involved (a fairly
elderly 2.4GHz Core2 machine) runs an application called 'PlanePlotter'
which requires accurate timekeeping and mandates Meinberg's NTP software.
Using the UK pool.ntp.org servers as a reference source this has worked very
well under XP for several years and the clock was seldom more than a few
milliseconds out. Under Windows 7, however, the clock can be anything up to
0.2s awry and the offset is very erratic. The daily loopstats graph looks
like a section through a mountain range.
I have carefully checked all settings and combed the internet for
suggestions but can see no reason for the sharply degraded performance. Is
there something about Windows 7 that degrades the performance of NTP? Or is
there anything subtle I can check?
Many thanks in advance.
John
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John,
Two suggestions:
- stop NTP, delete the file etc\ntp.drift, and restart NTP. Sometimes it
can get a wild value for no obvious reason.
- be sure you are running the latest development version of NTP (4.2.7p434).
See:
http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/setup.html#updating
At the back of my mind is a bug report suggesting using a poll interval of
no greater than - possibly 7 - but the details aren't to hand. Also
power-saving may be running the clock at different rates at different times.
Perhaps try disabling some of the power-saving options.
The only non-stratum-1 Windows 7 system I have here is Wi-Fi synced to a
local stratum-1 server, and its performance is here:
http://www.satsignal.eu/mrtg/performance_ystad.php
It's currently working from a microADSB stick and uploading only, to Plane
Plotter.
You cam also want to ask on the Usenet newsgroup, also accessible through
Google groups:
nntp://comp.protocols.time.ntp
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.protocols.time.ntp
Cheers,
David
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SatSignal Software - Quality software written to your requirements
Web: http://www.satsignal.eu
Email: david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk
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