On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Dan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a "spike"? Surely this kind of tiny temperature variation on > the unit's board somewhere outside the oven does not have a lot of > relevance or effect on anything inside the oven where it is all > happening. And what is the tolerance and resolution of the temperature > measuring device anyway? Or am I missing something fundamental here?
You are missing something fundamental. This is time-nuts, where we love to quibble over stray picoseconds and definitely get our knickers in a knot over a few nanoseconds. That some part of a timing system suddenly changed by several *hundredths* of a part is an atrocity! :) I'm only half-kidding. I guess it's like large uptimes on unix machines - it's fun to see how long you can keep a system running, and how stable it is. Changes are worth investigating and quantifying. Is this a normal, bounded oscillation? Is this just randomess? Is the cat sleeping on the ovenized oscillator again? Are squirrels chewing on the antenna cables? Generally - what is the state of the system, what forces are affecting it, how can we make the system run better? CK -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too? _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
