[time-nuts] beaglebone black, debian, NTP client

[Attila Kinali]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:37:08 -0000
"David J Taylor" <david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> hanks, Attila.  I'm unsure where you are getting the figures from, but the 
> graph shows 2.5 µs averaged jitter:
> 
>   http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/2015-03-21-23-BBB_jitter.png
> 
> with the reduced OS, and 2.5 to 4 µs with the fuller OS.  The peak-to-peak 
> will higher than those figures, of course.

That's one thing that annoys me with those graphs. If you average jitter
it loses its meaning. What you then get is the mean deviation (aka offset).
Without an accompanying standard deviation (and a test that you actually
have a gausian distribution) this value is not worth much.

What I am talking about is 
http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/2015-03-21-23-BBB_offset.png

The before ("full" OS) and after ("console" OS) is strange by itself.
What kind of process is running that increases interrupt latency jitter
by a factor of 2-3? Why does the "console" OS still exhibit a jitter that
is a factor 2 to 3 higher than what i'd expect as interrupt jitter?


			Attila Kinali

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