On 01/08/2012 09:46, Hahn, Ron wrote:
Colleagues,
I have been working for some time now trying to get four different Asus Atom
motherboards to successfully work as a NTP stratum 1 server. I am using the
FreeBSD 8.3 OS with PPS compilation in the kernel, and the ntp-devel port
(4.2.7p2?? version ntp). Thanks to the David Taylor web site, I am using the
Sure GPS boards to drive these motherboards and also his MRTG script to monitor
these things too.
What I am seeing is that the time is off by almost 53,000uS on the MRTG graph
and almost 500mS sometimes on the outputs of ntpq -c pe at times. Other times
it is a few uS from PPS. I have been seeing this on three different boards
(D525, D510, and 330 CPU) so this is repeating. I was thinking this might be
the tty port so I have tried both the tty ports and still the same.
I have used exactly the same recipe on a Core 2 Duo Tyan server and the times
are maximally off by only +4uS/-2uS from PPS. So I am thinking there is
something fundamental wrong with the Atom boards. I have repeated the
experiments with a Pentium 4 server in another location and I am also seeing
excellent timekeeping too. I am thinking that maybe the Atom clock on the
board is too consumer for these uses??
Has others experienced these difficulties with Atom motherboards as Stratum 1
servers?
Thanks,
Ron
Ron,
This is the performance I see from an Intel Atom system:
http://www.satsignal.eu/mrtg/pixie_ntp.html
about as good as I would expect. The motherboard in that PC is an Intel
D410PT. So I think that the problem is not from using an Intel Atom per
se. I also have an ASrock Intel system which is LAN-synced, and the
offsets there are a few milliseconds, but not 53 ms.
--
Cheers,
David
Web: http://www.satsignal.eu
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