[ntp:questions] mtp srver load figures?
Christoph Weber-Fahr
wefa2 at gmx.de
Thu Dec 3 18:15:09 UTC 2009
Hello,
Unruh wrote:
> Christoph Weber-Fahr <wefa2 at gmx.de> writes:
>> I'm preparing to build a few ntp servers for a somewhat large population of
>> NTP-misbehaving boxes (they top out at a 120 sec interval).
>
> Why have you set them up that way?
Basically, that's the vendor-specified behavior.
>> So, to size this right - what kind of request load can I safely throw
>> at ntpd on a current Xeon server?
>
>> Is 200 requests per second a problem?
>> What do you calculate?
>
> That is not very many. But why? I am sure you do not have 20000
> machines.
Actually that's exactly the design target.
And that's not that big. Somewhere further down on my priority list
is doing the same for about a million boxes already out in the
field (though these behave marginally nicer).
Regards,
Christoph Weber-Fahr
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