[ntp:questions] Use ntpd as a daemon so that it continuously disciplines clock, no
David J Taylor
david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid
Mon Jan 17 14:46:28 UTC 2011
> Even when completely idle, ntpd wakes up every second and does quite a
> lot (updating timers, scanning the peer hash table, etc). I'd say that
> starting ntpd two times per day will take much less resources than
> running it continuosly.
>
> --
> Miroslav Lichvar
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.
Cheers,
David
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