Miguel Gonçalves wrote:
Besides correcting the CPU clock frequency what can I do to improve the
Applying a static correction to the clock frequency only helps if the static error is close to or greater than 500ppm. However, if that is the case, the right thing to do is to replace the motherboard, with a better one as it is likely that the clock is unstable as well as having a high static error.
performance? The machines I have at the moment are showing worse than 1 us performance perhaps because I am not using GPS timing receivers.
Make sure the system is only used as a time server. Keep its temperature very constant. Disable any form of power management (in particular variable clock rates). Disable spread spectrum clocks.
Calibrate the systematic error by outputting a hardware pulse within the kernel at a precisely known system clock time and using hardware to measure the offset from the PPS input pulse. You will need to also output the system time at which you did this, but that needn't be in real time.
Do not try to do this on the second.
I know... :-) My cable connection is really bad for NTP... I can't get better than 3 us. That is why I have 2 stratum 1 GPS receivers onsite.
Reading that as 3ms. The time you serve will have that sort of jitter in, it so there is little point in being accurate to better than about 100 microseconds of jitter/wander.
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