NTP

[David Rees]

I don't know about running it _easily_ on a 8mb box, (It uses up about 
1.5mb memory, and is never swapped out since it is running all the time), 
but on any normal box it will be fine.  Even though it is running all the 
time, it only uses a very small amount of CPU time.  It won't affect any 
normal sized machine unless it's really tight on memory.

I install and run it on every machine I setup.

-Dave

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:48:52AM -0700, dreamwvr wrote:
> 
> hi Kenneth,
>                       NTP is very low overhead.. you could run it easily
> on a
> old 486 with 8 meg ram..
> Kenneth Porter wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 22:45:02 +0000, Jim Reid wrote:
> >
> > >Another suggestion. Configure the Network Time Protocol on your
> > >computers.
> >
> > Now if we could just get ISP's to load this on their name servers and
> > make this visible to their clients.... The last time I checked, neither
> > @Home nor RCN offered a time server, so I have to go to one of the
> > public 2nd tier servers. However, to reduce load, I use ntpdate once a
> > day to sync and then serve time to my LAN boxen.
> >
> > Presumably an NTP server can coexist with a name server without unduly
> > loading the box? (I'm just looking for ammo to lobby my ISP's with.)
> >
> > Ken
> > mailto:shiva at well.com
> > http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/
> 
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