[ntp:questions] like a kid with a new toy (PPS jitter)
Terje Mathisen
"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no" at ntp.org
Thu Feb 5 21:33:51 UTC 2009
Dave Hart wrote:
> After close to a week of calibration, I fudged then flipped off
> noselect on my GPS+PPS refclock in the early minutes of the UTC day.
>
> It looks to me (from my limited perspective of no other local
> refclocks) that I've gone from single-digit milliseconds to double-
> digit microseconds accuracy.
>
> Looking at the last 800 loopstats lines for the refclock, representing
> a bit more than 3 hours of 16s polls, the offsets in microseconds look
> like
>
> -79.497 min
> -26.961 mean
> 20.565 max
> 17.381 stddev
>
> The jitter (us)
>
> 1.907 min
> 7.974 mean
> 35.64 max
> 4.651 stddev
>
> How does that look to more jaded PPS eyes?
Pretty bad actually: After a day or so you should see 0-5 us offset and
jitter.
>
> The refclock is a Garmin GPS 18x LVC connected to a dual PII 400 via
I have one of those! (A Dell?)
It might work even better in single-cpu mode if it is a dedicated ntp
server.
Terje
> serial with PPS wired to the carrier detect pin.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave Hart
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- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
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