Re: [ntp:questions] Regular spike_detect on syslog

2018-09-16 Thread Sean Austin Critica
Thanks, Mike & Jan. I’m running on bare metal HP Gen9 blade. I have started looking at the BIOS settings and as far as I can tell there are a lot of options that affect CPU frequency and they are turned on. I will check tomorrow if ‘Spread Spectrum’ is available and is turned on as I don’t

Re: [ntp:questions] Regular spike_detect on syslog

2018-09-16 Thread Sean Austin Critica
Hello, > I assume that yours is a Class A device I think this particular hardware model is shipped as either A or B. In this case it is probably class A. > Whereas these options do modulate the clock frequency, they do so with > the knowledge of the operating system. The OS is therefore

Re: [ntp:questions] Regular spike_detect on syslog

2018-09-16 Thread Mike Cook
> Le 16 sept. 2018 à 16:34, Jan Ceuleers a écrit : > > On 16/09/18 14:15, Sean Austin Critica wrote: >> >> >> Can I directly observe these sources and see which ones are stable >> (maybe by dumping them periodically, remotely from a machine with a >> known stable clock)? The OS in this case

Re: [ntp:questions] Regular spike_detect on syslog

2018-09-16 Thread Mike Cook
> Le 16 sept. 2018 à 16:34, Jan Ceuleers a écrit : > > " People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. Emma Goldman ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org

Re: [ntp:questions] Regular spike_detect on syslog

2018-09-16 Thread Jan Ceuleers
On 16/09/18 14:15, Sean Austin Critica wrote: >   > > Can I directly observe these sources and see which ones are stable > (maybe by dumping them periodically, remotely from a machine with a > known stable clock)? The OS in this case is RedHat EL 7. > >   > "Directly observe": no. But you can

Re: [ntp:questions] Regular spike_detect on syslog

2018-09-16 Thread Jan Ceuleers
On 16/09/18 13:24, Sean Austin Critica wrote: >   > > I’m running on bare metal HP Gen9 blade. I have started looking at the > BIOS settings and as far as I can tell there are a lot of options that > affect CPU frequency and they are turned on. > >   > > I will check tomorrow if ‘Spread Spectrum’

Re: [ntp:questions] Regular spike_detect on syslog

2018-09-16 Thread Jan Ceuleers
On 15/09/18 22:55, Mike Cook wrote: > Maybe your server is frequency shifting . Check your BIOS settings . Sean: plug "bios spread spectrum" into your favourite search engine for more info. You want to disable that for accurate timekeeping. ___