Re: [ntp:questions] Performance estimation

2020-06-16 Thread David Taylor
On 17/06/2020 00:03, William Unruh wrote: Unless the cables are properly terminated at boththe gps receiver and the computer, this is probably not true. (the velocity of light may be under 5ns (ie less than 5 feet between the receiver and the computer) but the capacitive charging of the cable,

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance estimation

2020-06-16 Thread William Unruh
On 2020-06-16, David Taylor wrote: > On 16/06/2020 17:11, William Unruh wrote: > [] >> The question then is how rapidly the system can respond to an >> interrupt,. This at least used to be of the order of a microsecond. >> Also, how logd does it take to read the clock with the kernel gettime >>

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance estimation

2020-06-16 Thread David Taylor
On 16/06/2020 17:11, William Unruh wrote: [] The question then is how rapidly the system can respond to an interrupt,. This at least used to be of the order of a microsecond. Also, how logd does it take to read the clock with the kernel gettime routines. They all limit the accuracy of your clock

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance estimation

2020-06-16 Thread Dan Drown
Quoting David Taylor: The clock on a Raspberry Pi ranges from 700 to 1500 MHz, so clock resolution is in the nanosecond range. There is mention of 250 MHz as well, which would be 4 nanoseconds. It would be nice to see numbers which distinguish a little better than earlier RPi is "3" and more

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance estimation

2020-06-16 Thread William Unruh
On 2020-06-16, David Taylor wrote: > On 15/06/2020 19:00, David Woolley wrote: > [] >> What is the clock resolution?  If you try and measure jitters that >> aren't several times the resolution, they are not going to be >> particularly valid. >> >> If the hardware clock is almost dead on, and

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance estimation

2020-06-16 Thread David Taylor
Forgot the link: RasPi-1: https://www.satsignal.eu/mrtg/performance_raspi-1.php -- Cheers, David Web: http://www.satsignal.eu ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance estimation

2020-06-16 Thread David Taylor
On 16/06/2020 14:04, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: On 2020-06-16, David Taylor wrote: The clock on a Raspberry Pi ranges from 700 to 1500 MHz, so clock resolution is in the nanosecond range. For best timekeeping performance, you would want to set the CPU frequency to a fixed value. I would also

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance estimation

2020-06-16 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On 2020-06-16, David Taylor wrote: > The clock on a Raspberry Pi ranges from 700 to 1500 MHz, so clock > resolution is in the nanosecond range. For best timekeeping performance, you would want to set the CPU frequency to a fixed value. > I would also like to see whether the characteristics of

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance estimation

2020-06-16 Thread David Taylor
On 15/06/2020 19:00, David Woolley wrote: [] What is the clock resolution?  If you try and measure jitters that aren't several times the resolution, they are not going to be particularly valid. If the hardware clock is almost dead on, and the peak to peak dither is just less than the

Re: [ntp:questions] Performance estimation

2020-06-16 Thread David Taylor
On 15/06/2020 19:58, William Unruh wrote: [] Why would it be useful? What are you trying to do. It is always better to first present the problem rather than trying to get people to improve your solution to an unknown problem. It's not a problem, simply trying to get a better understanding of

Re: [ntp:questions] List rejection!

2020-06-16 Thread David Taylor
On 15/06/2020 19:53, William Unruh wrote: [] And why would you think that posting it to the newsgroup would get the people in charge of the email list? Do you mean one of the mailing lists listed on https://lists.ntp.org/listinfo? Which one? There it says If you are having trouble using the