[time-nuts] Comparing the BeagleBone Black & Raspberry Pi asNTP servers

Neil Schroeder gigneil at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 14:09:38 EDT 2015


I can confirm similar issues with each of my BBBs.  They just can't seem to
get the jitter down.

I've tried a variety of combinations of Debian and Ubuntu, and even
replaced the clock on one with an Si5338.

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 6:29 AM, Mike George <mgeorge at tuffmail.us> wrote:

> David:
>
> On this page:
>
> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#BBW.
> 2FBBB_.28All_Revs.29
>
> they list an alternative console only image:
>
> https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/release/2015-03-01/
> console/bone-debian-7.8-console-armhf-2015-03-01-2gb.img.xz
>
> It might be easier starting with that if you don't intend to use graphics.
>
> Mike
>
> On 3/22/2015 03:46, David J Taylor wrote:
>
>> David:
>> On the BBB, were you running the fully loaded release, or the minimum
>> "console" version of the OS?
>> Which specific version of the OS?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --- Graham
>> =================================
>>
>> Graham,
>>
>> The download was:
>>
>>  bone-debian-7.8-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-03-01-4gb.img.xz (547,024,548 bytes)
>>
>> which was from the "Recommended Debian Images" from:
>> http://beagleboard.org/latest-images.  Perhaps there are some services
>> or background tasks I can disable to reduce the CPU steady load from its
>> present 16% average level?
>>
>> 73,
>> David GM8ARV
>>
>
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