Thanks again Mike. But the best part is that with the kids arguing over what time it was last night and the clicker disappearing AGAIN, the wife discovered she could dial *60 and find out how close to bed time it is! Gotta love those handy features.
The processor on my dual CPU seems to be particularly flakey. Hmmm....maybe I should sync to the OpenBSD firewall. It seemed easier to set up ntpd again on the * server. Probably better in the long run anyway. What's a Stratum 2 time server, for those of us not in the know? I usually use time.nrc.ca. Peter M. > Peter, > > System clocks are always pretty flakey. On all my machines I set up ntpdate > to run every 6 hours. > Even on my best machine it will adjust the clock usually .7-1.1 seconds every > time it synchs and > the bad systems 5-12 seconds. My main ntpd server I synch every hour from one > of the u of t ntp > servers which are Stratum2 time servers. > > Mike > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks, dude. Excellent information on this list, as per usual. Now if > I could > just get the clock on the motherboard fixed. Seems like its losing its > settings > a lot but the battery looks OK. I think I have ntpd working OK in its > place. > > Peter M. > > > There are definite benefits to a dual/multi CPU machine. The actual > asterisk program isn't multi > threaded so it won't utilize more then one but, when other processes kick > off like transcoding, > festival, comedian the OS will utilize the other CPU(s) to distribute the > load. SO there is a definite > benefit just not as much as one would totally want. > > The only time there is no benefit is when you have no transcoding and > only the core asterisk > process running. But this is highly unusual. > > Mike > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) > Pro* > So running [EMAIL PROTECTED] on a dual processor P2 333 system is > still a waste of > processing power? CentOS does recognize both processors and loads > the > SMP kernel. Is there any benefit at all? > > Peter M. > ******************************************************** Peter MacFarlane, ACP Network Administration & Programming Target Call Center/ Message Centre P.E.I. ***************************************************************** OpenBSD's PF Firewall: Now available with CARP Failover. Nothing to do with fish, but everything to do with security! *****************************************************************
