On 1/17/2011 6:20 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:06:43AM -0800, Chris Albertson wrote:
As for resources ntpd takes up less then you can measure. After it has
been running for a while it takes up almost zero. Most of the
activity is when it first starts up. So letting it run might use less
CPU cycle than starting it serval times per day. Running the crontab
scrip involves starting multiple new processes. this is a very
reasource intensive thing to do, much more so then letting ntpd run.
Even when completely idle, ntpd wakes up every second and does quite a
lot (updating timers, scanning the peer hash table, etc). I'd say that
starting ntpd two times per day will take much less resources than
running it continuosly.
So running NTPD continuously eats 0.05% of the CPU! Do you *really* care?
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