On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 04:44:06PM +0800, Darren Reed wrote: > David Powell wrote: > > >On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:56:09PM +0800, Darren Reed wrote: > > > >>So what do I think is wrong here? > >>1) "svcadm disable ntp" has no affect on anything > >> > > > > False. It disabled the service. We assume you want your services > > shut down cleanly, and part of that is waiting for a partially > > started service to finish starting cleanly. The NTP start method has > > a timeout of 30 minutes; perhaps that should be shortened. > > > > Ugh...30 minutes? How many others have timeouts like this? > I'd say 3 seconds was bordering on too long for ntpdate to return.
What if you have a busy server, and NTP takes an uncorrectable memory fault and needs to be restarted. If that takes more than 3 seconds, then your timeout is too short, and it'll end up in maintenance. The timeouts are conservative for a reason. 30 minutes may be too long, but three seconds is way too short. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development
