On Mon, 20 May 2013, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: > I have NetBSD 5.1 running on a colocated virtual machine running on a > remote (to me) site. I am having no success is getting the system > clock to synchronise using ntpd, whereas all my various other systems > are in lock step. And, at least when the system is idling, crond is > reported as taking about 50% of available CPU time. > > The drift in the system clock is very substantial: could this be > because if I use m other systems as peers or servers the distance > (U.K. to California) is excessive? Perhaps someone could > suggest/offer sites in the S.F. Bay Area to which I could > synchronkise?
Google of Bay area and NTP shows some. Try using http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/us ? > I don't understand the crond behaviour - there is little in the > crontabs, there's no queue of jobs wiating to be processed - and > nothing I can seen in the results of a web search that seems to relate > to my situation. Please confirm that crond (notice the "d") is the process using the cpu. (If it is, you may have some unknown program running.) > Can anyone suggest a line of attack? If it is called "crond" maybe ktrace and tcpdump to see what that bogus program is doing.
