On Sep 18, 2007, at 6:58 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > For a while I used the scripts that someone already mentioned, but > I'd like to point out something that I haven't seen in other > messages. Monitoring consumes far more resources than the NTP > service itself. So monitor to satisfy curiosity and to get a feel > for what's going on. But after a while, you may wish to discontinue > monitoring at all.
One "cheap" way to do the monitoring is to just monitor the bandwidth on the switch. That's what I did when I was experimenting with a Soekris 4501 and wanted to get all the CPU for ntp traffic. If the box isn't doing anything else (or has a separate interface for just ntp) then that works pretty well. The NTP packets are predictable in size, so it's easy to convert kilobytes to requests. - ask -- http://develooper.com/ - http://askask.com/ _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
