Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread David J Taylor
unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote in message news:JDU9r.22132$_c5.11...@newsfe09.iad... [] Of course the question still is why in the world did the system go nuts when it was on Local. That itself should not have happened. If some software had told the system clock to run fast, it simply stays

[ntp:questions] Any chance of getting bugs 2164 and 1577 moving?

2012-03-20 Thread David J Taylor
Any chance of getting bug 2164 moving? Greater precision needed for ntpq offset report. http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2164 While I'm asking, nothing seems to have happened with bug 1577 in over 18 months. Request that SNMP support be added for the Windows port

[ntp:questions] comp . protocols . time

2012-03-20 Thread smitha siva
comp . protocols time //123maza.com/46/flower875/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 02:59:12AM +, Dave Hart wrote: Although it's the first time I've seen such, it appears the offset and frequency calculations both ended up overflowing. I would have guessed bad input should have appeared in peerstats before loopstats but I didn't find anything

Re: [ntp:questions] Any chance of getting bugs 2164 and 1577 moving?

2012-03-20 Thread Alby VA
On Mar 20, 3:45 am, David J Taylor david- tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: Any chance of getting bug 2164 moving?  Greater precision needed for ntpq offset report.  http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2164 While I'm asking, nothing seems to have happened with bug 1577 in over 18

Re: [ntp:questions] Any chance of getting bugs 2164 and 1577 moving?

2012-03-20 Thread Harlan Stenn
On Mar 20, 3:45=A0am, David J Taylor david- tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: Any chance of getting bug 2164 moving? =A0Greater precision needed for n= tpq offset report. =A0http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D2164 Patches welcome, otherwise we'll get to it as soon as somebody

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread Ron Frazier (NTP)
On 3/20/2012 2:25 AM, David J Taylor wrote: unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote in message news:JDU9r.22132$_c5.11...@newsfe09.iad... [] Of course the question still is why in the world did the system go nuts when it was on Local. That itself should not have happened. If some software had told the

Re: [ntp:questions] Any chance of getting bugs 2164 and 1577 moving?

2012-03-20 Thread David J Taylor
Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org wrote in message news:e1s9ysb-000kqp...@stenn.ntp.org... On Mar 20, 3:45=A0am, David J Taylor david- tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: Any chance of getting bug 2164 moving? =A0Greater precision needed for n= tpq offset report.

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread Dave Hart
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:28, Miroslav Lichvar mlich...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 02:59:12AM +, Dave Hart wrote: Although it's the first time I've seen such, it appears the offset and frequency calculations both ended up overflowing.  I would have guessed bad input should

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread David J Taylor
Ron Frazier (NTP) timekeepingntpl...@c3energy.com wrote in message [] Hypothetically speaking, what if I don't want it to distribute time if it's working in internet mode? Run a Perl script one a minute, looking for the GPS line in ntpq -p output, and if the tally code isn't * (or whatever,

Re: [ntp:questions] Any chance of getting bugs 2164 and 1577 moving?

2012-03-20 Thread Dave Hart
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 14:58, David J Taylor wrote: Harlan Stenn st...@ntp.org wrote in message news:e1s9ysb-000kqp...@stenn.ntp.org... I will say (knowing full well that I am not a windows guy) that we use net-snmp for this for Unix, and it sure looks to me like that code should build under

Re: [ntp:questions] Any chance of getting bugs 2164 and 1577 moving?

2012-03-20 Thread David J Taylor
It seems that the types of different variables are stored in a table, and offset has type FL. Latter on, there is a block of code like this: case FL: output(fp, name,

Re: [ntp:questions] Any chance of getting bugs 2164 and 1577 moving?

2012-03-20 Thread David Malone
David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid writes: 2164 needs discussion, unless altering the number of significant digits in the ntpq output wouldn't break anything. Do we need to have this discussion? I have looked through ntpq.c, but I can't see where the number of decimal

Re: [ntp:questions] Any chance of getting bugs 2164 and 1577 moving?

2012-03-20 Thread David Malone
David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid writes: Thanks, David. Those don't seem to be in ntpq.c (at least 4.2.7p134), so no wonder I couldn't find them. Ah - I'm looking at a slightly older verion (4.2.4p8), but I'd guess there is similar code lurking. But if the control messages

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread David J Taylor
[] David Taylor is right that it is normal for Windows to keep running the clock at whatever rate was last set after the program setting the rate goes away. It's also true that Windows does not have any rate limits itself -- you can easily tell Windows to advance the clock 1 usec per tick

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread Dave Hart
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 15:55, David J Taylor wrote: How does NTPD_TICKADJ_PPM affect this?  If that was set to -800, for example, wouldn't the adjustment range be -300/-1300 rather than +/-500? Yes, it would. Cheers, Dave Hart ___ questions mailing

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread David Lord
Ron Frazier (NTP) wrote: On 3/20/2012 2:25 AM, David J Taylor wrote: unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote in message news:JDU9r.22132$_c5.11...@newsfe09.iad... [] Of course the question still is why in the world did the system go nuts when it was on Local. That itself should not have happened. If

Re: [ntp:questions] Any chance of getting bugs 2164 and 1577 moving?

2012-03-20 Thread Dave Hart
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 15:59, David Malone wrote: David J Taylor writes: Thanks, David.  Those don't seem to be in ntpq.c (at least 4.2.7p134), so no wonder I couldn't find them. Ah - I'm looking at a slightly older verion (4.2.4p8), but I'd guess there is similar code lurking. No, there's

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread unruh
On 2012-03-20, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote in message news:JDU9r.22132$_c5.11...@newsfe09.iad... [] Of course the question still is why in the world did the system go nuts when it was on Local. That itself should not have happened.

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread unruh
On 2012-03-20, Dave Hart h...@ntp.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:28, Miroslav Lichvar mlich...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 02:59:12AM +, Dave Hart wrote: Although it's the first time I've seen such, it appears the offset and frequency calculations both ended up

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread unruh
On 2012-03-20, Ron Frazier (NTP) timekeepingntpl...@c3energy.com wrote: On 3/20/2012 2:25 AM, David J Taylor wrote: unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote in message news:JDU9r.22132$_c5.11...@newsfe09.iad... [] Of course the question still is why in the world did the system go nuts when it was on

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread David J Taylor
unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote in message news:d13ar.7952$gv1.7...@newsfe12.iad... [] It is really really hard to imagine any gps device doing that. Yes, I agree, and yet what just popped up in my mail box but a reference to: an inexplicable 1 second slip of 3 GPS based NTP time sources. I

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread Ron Frazier (NTP)
On 3/20/2012 1:25 PM, unruh wrote: On 2012-03-20, Ron Frazier (NTP)timekeepingntpl...@c3energy.com wrote: On 3/20/2012 2:25 AM, David J Taylor wrote: unruhun...@invalid.ca wrote in message news:JDU9r.22132$_c5.11...@newsfe09.iad... [] Of course the question still is why in

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread Dave Hart
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 17:28, unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2012-03-20, Dave Hart h...@ntp.org wrote: David Taylor is right that it is normal for Windows to keep running the clock at whatever rate was last set after the program setting the rate goes away.  It's also true that Windows does

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread Ron Frazier (NTP)
Hi David L, See below. On 3/20/2012 1:00 PM, David Lord wrote: Ron Frazier (NTP) wrote: On 3/20/2012 2:25 AM, David J Taylor wrote: unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote in message news:JDU9r.22132$_c5.11...@newsfe09.iad... [] Of course the question still is why in the world did the system go nuts

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread unruh
On 2012-03-20, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote in message news:d13ar.7952$gv1.7...@newsfe12.iad... [] It is really really hard to imagine any gps device doing that. Yes, I agree, and yet what just popped up in my mail box but a

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread David J Taylor
unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote in message news:Ur4ar.15722$iq1.15...@newsfe18.iad... On 2012-03-20, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote in message news:d13ar.7952$gv1.7...@newsfe12.iad... [] It is really really hard to imagine any gps device

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Albertson
Ron, I think the below is correct enough but accuracy is only one dimension of NTP server performance.As you have found one other dimension is reliability. It does little good to have a system that is running at pico-second level But jumps ahead two years at rare unpredictable times. (It

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread unruh
On 2012-03-20, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote in message news:Ur4ar.15722$iq1.15...@newsfe18.iad... On 2012-03-20, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote in message

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread unruh
On 2012-03-20, Dave Hart h...@ntp.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 17:28, unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2012-03-20, Dave Hart h...@ntp.org wrote: David Taylor is right that it is normal for Windows to keep running the clock at whatever rate was last set after the program setting the rate

[ntp:questions] Jitter on $GPGGA of Sure board

2012-03-20 Thread Gom
Hi, I've been working on my own clock management software under windows using a Sure board, without the serialpps driver. Here's some console output Lines with offset are the PPS The other lines are from the $GPGGSA. You can see the PPS maintains the offset of the windows clock under 30µs.

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread David Lord
Ron Frazier (NTP) wrote: Hi David L, See below. On 3/20/2012 1:00 PM, David Lord wrote: Ron Frazier (NTP) wrote: Hi David T, Eventually, I do plan to have the server preferences as follows: Time server machine: GPS Internet as backup Hypothetically speaking, what if I

Re: [ntp:questions] Any chance of getting bugs 2164 and 1577 moving?

2012-03-20 Thread Harlan Stenn
David wrote: 2164 needs discussion, unless altering the number of significant digits in the ntpq output wouldn't break anything. Do we need to have this discussion? I have looked through ntpq.c, but I can't see where the number of decimal digits in the output for offset is set. I'd be

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
unruh wrote: Dave Hart h...@ntp.org wrote: frequency adjustments aren't compounded like that. Lets hope not, but on his system, something DID trigger a runaway. What about power saving frequency management of the core NTP is using? -- E-Mail Sent to this address

Re: [ntp:questions] site with lots of GPS's and accessories

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Albertson
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:06 PM, unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2012-03-19, Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Alby VA alb...@empire.org wrote: On Mar 19, 12:12 pm, unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: The actual PPS signal at the PPS pin has

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread unruh
On 2012-03-20, David Lord sn...@lordynet.org wrote: Ron Frazier (NTP) wrote: Hi David L, See below. On 3/20/2012 1:00 PM, David Lord wrote: Ron Frazier (NTP) wrote: Hi David T, Eventually, I do plan to have the server preferences as follows: Time server machine: GPS

Re: [ntp:questions] Jitter on $GPGGA of Sure board

2012-03-20 Thread Ron Frazier (NTP)
I'm curious. Are you outputting ONLY GPGGA, or other sentences as well. Other sentences will increase jitter. I'm getting about 5 ms of jitter on my USB based BU-353 outputting GPGGA only at 9600 baud. I'll be testing the Sure board once I get it. Sincerely, Ron On 3/20/2012 4:32 PM,

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread Ron Frazier (NTP)
On 3/20/2012 5:19 PM, David Lord wrote: Ron Frazier (NTP) wrote: Hi David L, See below. On 3/20/2012 1:00 PM, David Lord wrote: Ron Frazier (NTP) wrote: Hi David T, Eventually, I do plan to have the server preferences as follows: Time server machine: GPS Internet as backup

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread Ron Frazier (NTP)
On 3/20/2012 5:48 PM, E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote: unruh wrote: Dave Harth...@ntp.org wrote: frequency adjustments aren't compounded like that. Lets hope not, but on his system, something DID trigger a runaway. What about power

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread Ron Frazier (NTP)
On 3/20/2012 11:21 AM, David J Taylor wrote: Ron Frazier (NTP) timekeepingntpl...@c3energy.com wrote in message [] Hypothetically speaking, what if I don't want it to distribute time if it's working in internet mode? Run a Perl script one a minute, looking for the GPS line in ntpq -p output,

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread Rick Jones
Ron Frazier (NTP) timekeepingntpl...@c3energy.com wrote: On 3/20/2012 5:48 PM, E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote: unruh wrote: Dave Harth...@ntp.org wrote: frequency adjustments aren't compounded like that. Lets hope not, but on

[ntp:questions] Multiple 'prefer' servers

2012-03-20 Thread A C
Out of curiosity, what does ntpd do when multiple servers are marked 'prefer'. Does it use its clock algorithm and attempt to select the best server from the collection of 'prefers' or does it just hang onto one and use it always? ___ questions

Re: [ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

2012-03-20 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
Rick Jones wrote: Ron Frazier wrote: BlackList wrote: unruh wrote: Dave Hart wrote: frequency adjustments aren't compounded like that. Lets hope not, but on his system, something DID trigger a runaway. What about power saving frequency management of the core NTP is using? I doubt that's