[ntp:questions] Use ntpd as a daemon so that it continuously disciplines clock, no

David Malone dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Mon Jan 17 15:04:27 UTC 2011


"David J Taylor" <david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> writes:

>Have you ever measured the resources used by ntpd on a modern CPU? 
>Absolutely negligible - at least when serving a dozen clients and serving 
>as a stratum-1 PPS clock.  Perhaps a little more with thousands of 
>clients, of course.  Not running ntpd continuously will ruin its accuracy.

Checking our server here with, probaly over 1000 clients, which
also monitors a GPS refclock, ntpd seems to have used about 0.1%
CPU over the last month on an oldish P4 box.

	David.




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