Re: refclock local with OCXO

Stephanie Wilde-Hobbs <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.time.chrony.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 29/06/2023 09:22, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 07:31:29PM +0200, Stephanie Wilde-Hobbs wrote:
>> Before buying hardware I want to make sure: will chrony
>> will measure and correct for the frequency error and long-term drift in the
>> OCXO using connected NTP servers?
> 
> It will measure the frequency offset relative to NTP sources or other
> refclocks, but it will not correct it or do anything interesting with
> it. It cares only about changes in the frequency to stabilize the
> system clock as if you replaced the XO on the motherboard.
> 
>> If so, how will I monitor this frequency
>> error to make sure the process is happening properly?
> 
> The frequency offset will be visible in the sourcestats report. The
> phase offset will be moving between 0 and 1 second.
> 

Thank you very much, this seems to be what I want! Is the time period 
over which the OCXO is assumed stable controlled by minsamples/maxsamples?

Stephanie.

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