Thierry wrote:
> 
> 
> 2007/9/15, Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
> 
>     On Saturday 15 September 2007, Chip Cuccio wrote:
>      >
>      > On Sep 15, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Chuck wrote:
>      >
>      > > what are most of you using to monitor local ntp servers?
>      >
>      >
>      > A combination of Wayne S.'s scripts ( http://www.schlitt.net/scripts/
>      > ntp/index.html), Dennis H.'s RRDtool scripts (http://
>      > saturn.dennishilberg.com/ <http://saturn.dennishilberg.com/> ),
>     and my own scripts/hacks.
>      >
>      > The scripts by Wayne and Dennis' are excellent for my monitoring
>      > purposes.
>      >
>      > --
>      > Chip Cuccio
>      >
>     excellent. thanks!! looks like i have a bit of 'playtime' ahead :)
>      >
>      > _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I still have issues with those scripts regarding clients stats. I think 
> tcpdump is a bit CPU intensive from time to time.
> 
> I'm currently using iptables/ULOG and a little script to generate this 
> kind of stats.

I don't have any problems with tcpdump and CPU load as long as the client 
count stays relatively low.  But when I get those 60k+ active client peaks 
the system does get loaded down.  I don't generate load statistics, but on a 
couple occasions I've been logged into the system during a huge peak and the 
load average was in the 2.25-2.5 range.

For comparison, a typical active client count for my ntp server is in the 
5000-5500 range, and ntp_clients and tcpdump show 0.0 %CPU most of the time 
with a 0.00 load average.

Since this new DNS system has been unveiled for the pool, hopefully those 
large peaks are a thing of the past.

-- 
Dennis Hilberg, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
NTP Server Information: http://saturn.dennishilberg.com/ntp.php
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