I meant that the clock is extra flakey, of course. Time to wake up! Peter M.
> Thanks again Mike. But the best part is that with the kids arguing over what > time it was last night > and the clicker disappearing AGAIN, the wife discovered she could dial *60 > and find out > how close to bed time it is! Gotta love those handy features. > > The processor on my dual CPU seems to be particularly flakey. Hmmm....maybe > I should > sync to the OpenBSD firewall. It seemed easier to set up ntpd again on the * > server. > Probably better in the long run anyway. What's a Stratum 2 time server, for > those of us not > in the know? I usually use time.nrc.ca. > > Peter M. > > > Peter, > > > > System clocks are always pretty flakey. On all my machines I set up ntpdate > > to run every 6 hours. > > Even on my best machine it will adjust the clock usually .7-1.1 seconds > > every time it synchs and > > the bad systems 5-12 seconds. My main ntpd server I synch every hour from > > one of the u of t ntp > > servers which are Stratum2 time servers. > > > > Mike > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks, dude. Excellent information on this list, as per usual. Now > > if I could > > just get the clock on the motherboard fixed. Seems like its losing its > > settings > > a lot but the battery looks OK. I think I have ntpd working OK in its > > place. > > > > Peter M. > > > > > > There are definite benefits to a dual/multi CPU machine. The actual > > asterisk program isn't multi > > threaded so it won't utilize more then one but, when other processes > > kick off like transcoding, > > festival, comedian the OS will utilize the other CPU(s) to distribute > > the load. SO there is a definite > > benefit just not as much as one would totally want. > > > > The only time there is no benefit is when you have no transcoding and > > only the core asterisk > > process running. But this is highly unusual. > > > > Mike ******************************************************** Peter MacFarlane, ACP Network Administration & Programming Target Call Center/ Message Centre P.E.I. ***************************************************************** OpenBSD's PF Firewall: Now available with CARP Failover. Nothing to do with fish, but everything to do with security! *****************************************************************
