Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-23 Thread Attila Kinali
On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:41:56 -0400 Paul tic-...@bodosom.net wrote: 1) Did you start out using the attached patch antenna? D Drown implies successfully using the patch on the Adafruit until it was soldered in place. He fixed that by switching to an external antenna. I've never had any

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-23 Thread Neil Schroeder
The other key key key item is make sure you hand build yourself a 3.14 or .16 kernel. NS On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Attila Kinali att...@kinali.ch wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:41:56 -0400 Paul tic-...@bodosom.net wrote: 1) Did you start out using the attached patch antenna? D Drown

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-22 Thread Attila Kinali
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:23:30 - David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I've just put up my first draft of a comparison of these two popular devices as NTP servers: http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/BBB-vs-RPi.html Comments welcomed - I know it's an imperfect test! Something

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-22 Thread Attila Kinali
On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 14:14:01 - David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Yes, my posting was at least in part for help with resolving the much higher CPU load seen on a default BBB installation than on an RPi setup. If you could provide a list of services and cron jobs to be

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-22 Thread David J Taylor
From: Attila Kinali Something is wrong here. I would expect the BBB to perform at least as well as the rpi (after all, the BBB has an ethernet MAC with IEEE1588 support, while the rpi is basically a glorified USB controller with attached graphics card). You are most likely running services on

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-22 Thread Chris Albertson
I'm surprised you did not kill off those other tasks. Looks like you might be running a web server, building an index or something. Were the /etc/ntp.conf files the same on Pi and BBB? Test is not valid unless both computers are running the same things. On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:38 PM,

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-22 Thread Chuck Harris
One of those services is likely the full blown web server that runs on the BBB to allow you to view the help pages. -Chuck Harris Attila Kinali wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:23:30 - David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I've just put up my first draft of a comparison of

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-22 Thread Paul
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:23 PM, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I've just put up my first draft of a comparison of these two popular devices as NTP servers: Comments welcomed - I know it's an imperfect test! ... Perhaps there are some services or background tasks I

[time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-21 Thread David J Taylor
Folks, I've just put up my first draft of a comparison of these two popular devices as NTP servers: http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/BBB-vs-RPi.html Comments welcomed - I know it's an imperfect test! Cheers, David -- SatSignal Software - Quality software written to your requirements Web:

Re: [time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi as NTP servers

2015-03-21 Thread Graham / KE9H
David: On the BBB, were you running the fully loaded release, or the minimum console version of the OS? Which specific version of the OS? Thanks, --- Graham == On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:23 AM, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Folks, I've just put up my first draft of a