On Friday, 26 July 2019 15:23:11 BST YUE Daian wrote: > On 2019-07-26 09:30, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > On Friday, 26 July 2019 05:36:29 BST YUE Daian wrote: > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> I use ntp-client to synchronize the date/time of my Gentoo system. > >> > >> I added it to the default boot level (OpenRC), however it seriously > >> slows down the boot process (around 10 seconds or so). > >> > >> Is there any way to make it faster? Or am I using the wrong service? > > > > It may be taking time to gather entropy. In that case you could install > > sys- apps/haveged and add it to your boot run-level. > > Well, I presume the problem is related to ntpdate itself. > > It is working in a blocking way that the remaining boot processes have > to wait until the time got synchronized.
Or, until the network is up and a time server can be contacted? > Is there any way to make it update the time in an asynchronize way? > Or should I use ntpd instead? > > Thanks. > > Danny I don't run ntp-client here, but have a look at its startup script and any dependencies defined therein, then perhaps tweak /etc/rc.conf. Does setting rc_depend_strict="NO" makes a difference? -- Regards, Mick
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