Re: NTP Performance

2019-11-22 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 11/23/19 12:57 AM, ASSI via devel wrote: > Richard Laager via devel writes: >> On 11/21/19 12:55 AM, ASSI via devel wrote: I could try fiddling around with the polling interval. Next steps might be to try raising the polling the interval to 4 and/or lowering it to 1. >> >>> It is gener

Re: NTP Performance

2019-11-22 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 11/23/19 1:28 AM, ASSI via devel wrote: > Richard Laager via devel writes: >> On 11/21/19 1:15 AM, Hal Murray wrote: ntp1 uses the PPS refclock with a polling interval of 3 from a telecom GPSDO (OCXO): >>> What brand/model? >> >> Symmetricom TimeSource 3000. It's an older, end-o

Re: NTP Performance

2019-11-22 Thread ASSI via devel
Richard Laager via devel writes: > On 11/21/19 1:15 AM, Hal Murray wrote: >>> ntp1 uses the PPS refclock with a polling interval of 3 from a telecom GPSDO >>> (OCXO): >> What brand/model? > > Symmetricom TimeSource 3000. It's an older, end-of-life model that we've > had in place for a while. We ha

Re: NTP Performance

2019-11-22 Thread ASSI via devel
Richard Laager via devel writes: > On 11/21/19 12:55 AM, ASSI via devel wrote: >>> I could try fiddling around with the polling interval. Next steps might >>> be to try raising the polling the interval to 4 and/or lowering it to 1. > >> It is generally inadvisable to use too short polling intervals

Re: NTP Performance

2019-11-22 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 11/21/19 12:55 AM, ASSI via devel wrote: >> I could try fiddling around with the polling interval. Next steps might >> be to try raising the polling the interval to 4 and/or lowering it to 1. > It is generally inadvisable to use too short polling intervals unless > rthe clock you are disciplini

Re: NTP Performance

2019-11-22 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 11/21/19 1:15 AM, Hal Murray wrote: >> ntp1 uses the PPS refclock with a polling interval of 3 from a telecom GPSDO >> (OCXO): > What brand/model? Symmetricom TimeSource 3000. It's an older, end-of-life model that we've had in place for a while. We have four of them in different sites, but thi

GPS TDOP

2019-11-22 Thread Richard Laager via devel
The NTPviz output says, "TDOP is a dimensionless error factor. TDOP ranges from 1 to greater than 20. 1 denotes the highest possible confidence level. 2 to 5 is good." I routinely have TDOP values below 1, which this text implies is impossible: https://ntp2.wiktel.com/day/index.html#local_gps Wh