Is there any consensus for the reasons why Linux performs poorly? I was thinking about setting up a server as well (possibly using a little ARM-based single-board computer that runs Linux).
Randy. --- On Thu, 5/14/09, Robert Darlington <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Robert Darlington <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Linux time servers > To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" > <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, May 14, 2009, 4:23 PM > RedHat in the 90s was terrible. > It's much better now. > > Last thing I read about ntp was that it was kind of broken > for high > precision stuff on Linux and people tend to use > FreeBSD. I duplicated the > work of one of the time-nuts by following his site here: > > http://www.febo.com/pages/soekris/ > > Even with all of the details there it still required a > great effort on my > part to get things up and running to where I have them > now. If you decide > to go this route I will be more than happy to send you a > copy of the image > on my CF card so that you'll have a working system out of > the box. I had to > recompile ntp because the current FreeBSD distro didn't > have support for > something (NMEA I think, of all things!). > > -Bob > > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Dave Ackrill <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Anyone got any good Linux time systems for PCs ? > > > > I now have a PC on my home system that has Linux > fedora on it and I'm keen > > to learn how to make it a useful new member of my > network. > > > > I did dabble with Redhat Linux once before in the > 1990s, and still have the > > scars to show for it, so please don't assume that I > know what I'm doing... > > > > Thanks > > > > Dave (G0DJA) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
