Re: Clarifications about PPS SHM content

[Greg Troxel]

Martin Boissonneault <address@hidden> writes:

> Follow-up question: I recall someone said that all time sources have
> an influence over the stability of the NTPd time, and if you had one
> unstable time source connected (like the GNSS serial shm?), the whole
> stability was affected even if you have a better, more precise clock
> selected. Considering my GNSS serial SHM has been (x) and is stratum
> 11, do you think it is negatively affecting my stability and should be
> commented out?

I think you need to consider what you want to happen when you do not
have working Internet.  I think having a local source that is a bit
higher variance is vastly better than running open loop.