Microserver HOWTO, and gearing up for first test farm runs

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eric!

On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:06:47 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com>:
> > > What I think I may see is that the drift over short GPS outages is
> > > low enough to make the local clock as effective a check server as
> > > the pool.  If that turns out to be true we can ship a Pi
> > > configuration that is really autonomous.  
> > 
> > Over three PPS ntpd's I'm seeing one bad PPS event, that throws the
> > clock way off, every few days.  So you'll need to run the farm
> > for maybe up to two weeks to see how the three commpare.  
> 
> Yeah, ouch.  Please make finding and fixing that GPSD bug your
> highest priority among GPSD/NTPsec tasks.  It's square in your
> patch and it's a bad one.

Yeah, no good ideas yet.  I keep noodling on it.  604800 seconds in a week,
and ONE of them goes wrong...

> > And, you'll need some visualization software, otherwise you'll not
> > see what the logs are telling you.  
> 
> I get that.  I figure I'll have time to chase your links while the
> tests run.

As long as you are gathering the logs when you start that is fine.

RGDS
GARY
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