ok, on my Solaris, the qmail distribution is "forking" almost 10 to 20
processes per second.
This cost a lot in system ressources and system calls
Yes. Unfortunately, Solaris isn't Unix, and qmail was designed to run
on Unix systems. Unix is rather good at forking, especially images as
Personally, I've looked at the TAI library with interest but I've never
seen a good reason to move away from xntpd for time synchronization.
If you want your system to tick TAI, clockspeed is the only game in
town.
I find it convenient to have xntpd take care of
handling
