On Oct 24, 2011, at 7:52 AM, A C wrote: > The header from top when things work normally (ntpd no longer running at high > priority in this capture): > >> load averages: 0.10, 0.09, 0.02; up 14+20:55:09 14:44:43 >> 22 processes: 21 sleeping, 1 on CPU >> CPU states: 10.5% user, 0.0% nice, 7.4% system, 6.4% interrupt, 75.8% idle >> Memory: 5048K Act, 2432K Inact, 300K Wired, 2316K Exec, 1336K File, 200K Free >> Swap: 128M Total, 9272K Used, 119M Free
This box has ~8MB of RAM? Well, that was a reasonable amount for a ~1990-era machine, and NetBSD will still run on it today, but running X11 clients is sure to push it into swapping out other processes entirely. That will cause ntpd (and gpsd, etc) to stop responding entirely for many seconds while the hard drive chugs-- that's the "uninterruptible sleep" you initially asked about. Put more RAM into the box, or replace it with something from this or at least the previous decade. :-) Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
