[ntp:questions] Power-saving patch to NTP

Unruh unruh-spam at physics.ubc.ca
Sun May 18 15:54:17 UTC 2008


Uwe Klein <uwe_klein_habertwedt at t-online.de> writes:

>Danny Mayer wrote:

>> It's not doing nothing. If the CPU is on standby nothing, including 
>> ntpd, should be running.

>ntp would then need to accomodate thinks like a "sleep mode"?
>and a "trigger" of type "Query the associations now"
>( on linux forex be d-bus aware? )

>The basic assumptions about the host systems ntp runs on are
>changing fast!

I am totally confused. The cpu is in sleep mode. The cpu is not doing
anything. ntp is NOT running. ntp cannot wake up the cpu because ntp is not
running. Only external events can wake up the cpu, and ntp is not an
external event. So, once the cpu is woken up, and ntp can run, what does it
matter if ntp then runs?



>uwe




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