[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > My question is if a high CPU usage could produce a variation of the > offset in a FreeBSD machine. Did anybody have this trouble?
One of the first things I tend to do when setting up a machine is slap a "nice -20" in front of any non-interactive, long-running programs in the startup files. Good candidates are cron, sendmail/postfix, thttpd/httpd, innd etc. The same thing is done for make(1) via an alias. My feeling is that there is no good reason why these programs should get first dibs on CPU cycles. They will still get all the cycles they want, but they might be delayed a few milliseconds to get them. Maybe this trick will help you? I never noticed it if helped ntpd, but it sure helped interactive typing response many years back when I started doing this. (Although the CPU's were 100x slower then, so the effect was much more noticeable.) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ IPv6 on Fedora 7 http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/fedora/ipv6-tunnel.html _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
