Thomas, in my opinion, there is no need for the power saving feature for a NTP time server. A very good time server may be build with an old PII/266 processor and the total power drawn by such a computer is under 40-50W. If the power restrictions are much lower, there are embedded computers (like soekris) with a power requiremet of about 10-15W.
Experinces made with production servers (with heavy mail, httpd, squid, etc.) shown us the precision could not be improved at all (we have here a dual PIII Xeon server, with more than 3000 user accounts and a httpd service with about 100 to 500 requests per second). The the offset is between 10 and 800 ms. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
