Pipe timings

2016-10-21 Thread Hal Murray
Pipes are basically not good enough since there can be only one reader. (assuming we want ntpd to get all the data) 1 samples, sender waits 1 ms between sends. data is: struct data { struct timespec time; int foo[12]; }; 2 GHz Pentium: # max = 150899us, average = 12821us # 107 over 25u

Re: Proposal - drop the GPSD JSON driver

2016-10-21 Thread Mark Atwood
Hi! I've been following this discussion. We should remove the GPSD JSON driver from NTPsec. It is an attractive nuisance. The SHM driver, possibly with improvements, is a better interface between NTPsec and GPSD. ..m On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 2:53 PM Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Hal Murray : > >

POLICY: devel@ntpsec.org is the primary channel of developer discussion and coordination

2016-10-21 Thread Mark Atwood
Hi! I would like to formalize a policy about development communication, which can be touch-in-cheek expressed as: If it wasn't in email, it didn't happen. It is currently popular and trendy to use a "chat-centric" developer communication model. Chat-centric dev does make sense for rapidly chang

Re: Proposal - drop the GPSD JSON driver

2016-10-21 Thread Hal Murray
fallenpega...@gmail.com said: > We should remove the GPSD JSON driver from NTPsec. > It is an attractive nuisance. The SHM driver, possibly with improvements, > is a better interface between NTPsec and GPSD. It's useful for collecting data on non-SHM approaches. How about we defer dropping it

Re: Proposal - drop the GPSD JSON driver

2016-10-21 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Mark! On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 21:00:24 + Mark Atwood wrote: > We should remove the GPSD JSON driver from NTPsec. I spend 40 minutes last night trying to get the GPSD SHM driver running on a RasPi. I did not get it finished. The experience reminds me that the #48 driver makes all sorts of n

Re: Proposal - drop the GPSD JSON driver

2016-10-21 Thread Mark Atwood
Got it, thanks! On Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 5:20 PM Gary E. Miller wrote: > Yo Mark! > > On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 21:00:24 + > Mark Atwood wrote: > > > We should remove the GPSD JSON driver from NTPsec. > > I spend 40 minutes last night trying to get the GPSD SHM driver running > on a RasPi. I did no