"David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This suggests there are almost 5000 cronjobs running once per hour > on the same minute, rather a dismal practice.
Maybe stock ntpdate and SNTP cohorts could add a random number of seconds to wait if it looks like they are being run near "even" times (such as on the hour or perhaps half hour). Maybe the abusers will pick up that code and have their load peaks diffused a bit. It is amazing how much extra network traffic one sees at round-numbered times. Cron makes it far too easy for folks to bunch up requests at the same time. -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.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
