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Following on from recent suggestions, I experimented a bit.<br>
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First: Instead of producing 7-day ntpviz graphs, I just went for 24
hour graphs. This reduced the nasty spikes to about 40% of
previous, better but not acceptable.<br>
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Second: the R Pi (hardware 0010) was overclocked at 800 MHz (normal
is 700 MHz) and the governor set to fixed speed of performance. I
also tweaked /boot/config.txt <br>
added nohz=off<br>
commented out #dtparam=audio=on<br>
corrected gpu_mem=0 to gpu_mem=16<br>
No obvious difference [...but]<br>
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Third: ntpstats were slowly moved (hourly cronjob) to another
machine (an Odroid HC-2) running ntpsec (which compiled easily and
quickly). This has been running over 24 hours now
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.goldhill.uk/ntpvizplots/index.html">http://www.goldhill.uk/ntpvizplots/index.html</a> and has completely
solved the problem. No nasty perfomance hits and the R Pi has
settled down nicely.<br>
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[...but] previously any small offset changes or jitter were rendered
invisible by the spikes, now much more visible with the much reduced
range of the y-axes. I'm wondering what else I will now notice !<br>
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For now, it seems like a decently performing setup. I'm still
looking for ntploggps to add GPS, plus temperature graphs
sometime. I probably ought to let it settle down for a while
beforehand.<br>
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