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yikes.. I don't know why your NTP server is that big.. or why you have
three of them.
our redhat 6.2 systems: (xntp3-5.93-14)
root 342 0.0 0.3 1364 1364 ? SL May16 0:00 xntpd -A
a debian system: (ntpd versoin 5.0.99g)
root 308 0.0 0.6 1556 1548 ? SL May14 0:44 /usr/sbin/ntpd
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
"Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Florin Iucha wrote:
> While I was waiting for something to compile I ran a top on my new
> debian box and something caught my attention:
>
> root 256 0.0 5.0 3928 3920 ? SL 13:44 0:01 /usr/sbin/ntpd
> root 258 0.0 5.0 3928 3920 ? SL 13:44 0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd
> root 260 0.0 5.0 3928 3920 ? SL 13:44 0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd
> ^^^^ ^^^^
> while on my OpenBSD/sparc box:
>
> root 1185 0.0 0.4 672 236 ?? Ss 2:52PM 0:00.15 /usr/local/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.p
> ^^^ ^^^
>
> <rant>Why the heck ntpd needs 3 threads and 4 MB of RAM?
>
> This is on a 64MB RAM box and I cannot afford 4 MB only for a process
> that's supposed to send some datagrams and compute time.
>
> Geez!
>
> [I know what the price for 256MB DIMM is but I need SIMMS ;-( - if
> anybody wants to trade some 16/32MB SIMMS for 4/8 please let me know 8) ]
>
> florin
>
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