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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