[chrony-users] Tracking behavior

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Hi,

I am running chrony 1.29.1 and gpsd 3.10. The following lines appear from time to time in the tracking.log file:

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   Date (UTC) Time     IP Address   St   Freq ppm   Skew ppm     Offset L Co  Offset sd Rem. corr.
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2014-09-24 13:52:58 GPS              1   -229.869    884.773 -1.055e-01 N  1  1.383e-01  1.092e-02
2014-09-24 13:53:14 GPS              1   -229.869    884.773 -1.836e-01 N  1  1.390e-01  1.374e-02
2014-09-24 13:53:31 GPS              1   -229.869    884.773 -1.840e-01 N  1  1.398e-01  1.978e-03
2014-09-24 13:53:47 GPS              1   -229.869    884.773 -2.743e-01 N  1  1.317e-01  1.859e-03
2014-09-24 13:54:03 GPS              1   -229.869    884.773 -2.783e-01 N  1  1.506e-01  2.768e-03
2014-09-24 13:54:19 GPS              1   -229.869    884.773 -7.634e-02 N  1  1.725e-01  2.817e-03
2014-09-24 13:54:35 GPS              1   -229.869    884.773 -1.701e-01 N  1  2.410e-01  2.818e-02
2014-09-24 13:54:51 GPS              1   -229.869    884.773  2.965e-02 N  1  2.654e-01  2.341e-02
2014-09-24 13:55:07 GPS              1   -229.869    884.773  5.304e-01 N  1  2.503e-01 -5.862e-03
2014-09-24 13:55:23 GPS              1   -229.869    884.773  2.437e-01 N  1  1.322e-01  5.300e-05
2014-09-24 13:55:39 GPS              1   -344.818    577.440  1.491e-01 N  1  2.294e-02 -2.442e-03
2014-09-24 13:55:55 GPS              1    161.775    430.258  5.527e-02 N  1  9.165e-03 -1.518e-03
2014-09-24 13:56:11 GPS              1    230.612    290.956  3.681e-03 N  1  7.325e-03 -5.690e-04
2014-09-24 13:56:27 GPS              1    168.971    339.229 -1.739e-02 N  1  8.942e-03 -5.020e-04

Freq. and skew are constant, the offset varies. At 13:55:07, the offset is larger then 0.5s. Chrony announces this to rsyslog and starts correcting it.

Sep 24 15:55:07 raspberrypi chronyd[19616]: System clock wrong by -0.530372 seconds, adjustment started

How can I interpret this? Did the GPS loose the signal, maybe?  Why are freq. and skew constant, while the offset varies?

Thanks for any help in advance!

BR, Dominik

chrony.conf:
refclock SHM 0 refid GPS offset 0.400
makestep 1000 -1
keyfile /etc/chrony/chrony.keys
commandkey 1
driftfile /var/lib/chrony/chrony.drift
log tracking refclocks statistics measurements
logdir /var/log/chrony
logbanner 100000
minsamples 16
dumponexit
dumpdir /var/lib/chrony
local stratum 10
logchange 0.5




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