Mario Behn wrote:
Hi,
I want to measure how well my PC time is synchronized to UTC (e.g. true
time). I have a oncore as a reference clock on an embedded system, which
has now graphic libraries installed, so I won't use MRGT or so as I found
as one suggestion.
So I would like to write out the estimated accuracy and the
estimated standard deviation (= jitter?) to a simple ascii file, which I
then can download and plot with matlab or so.
Now I few questions:
1.) Should I include more then the estimated accuracy and the
estimated standard deviation? What about Allan variance (by the way what
is that is the importance of this parameter) ?
2.) What is the easiest way to perform this measurement? I know there are
many files like /var/log/ntpstats/clockstats, which seem to already
include some of this data? However I don't know whether thats the way to
go?
3.) Well finally after have got the measurement, I need to interpret it
and decide whether it is reasonable for my system. Now I have a VIA EPIA
MII 6000 with 600 Mhz C3 processor and running Red Hat 9.0 with a 2.4.32
kernel and the corresponding pps kit. I have the synergy system smart
antenna based on the oncore M12T receiver. What accuracy can I expect?
So thats for now, any ideas and comments are highly appreciated.
Thanks -- Mario
I use gawk and a script to pull data from my peerstats file and plot it
with Gnuplot. Don't know if you have peerstats with your embedded
system though. Peerstats has all the servers jumbled together so the
gawk script pulls data for each server and writes it to a temporary
file. Gnuplot extracts the requested fields from the temporary file and
plots.
Interesting plots:
Offset vs. time of day
Delay vs. time of day
Delay vs. offset (scatter gram)
Synchronization distance (dispersion + delay/2) vs. time of day.
Perhaps the most interesting thing to study is how the internet can
mangle what is presumably good data to start with. I'm sure that most
of the stratum 1 and stratum 2 servers are within a few hundred
microseconds of the correct time but you couldn't prove it by what
arrives here!
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