On Mon 2007-08-20 at 16:27, Andy Armstrong wrote: > I know very little about ntp apart from what it does - but I have a > server in the pool. I may already have given you an adequate > description of my problem :)
Well, you forgot to mention where you went from 'ntpd dies' to 'lots of
traffic'. Those two should not be related because a stock ntpd does not
use a lot of memory in client tracking.
In fact, with the number of clients you get from the pool, the fixed-size
'recently seen' list from ntpd just overflows.
> Since joining the pool the server has been dying quite regularly.
> I've tracked the problem down to ntpd - the kernel reports out of
> memory just before the box dies - and the process id it mentions
> turns out to be ntpd in each case.
Or, the Linux OOM process-killer (out of memory) selects ntpd as target
because it fits the criteria of the OOM process-killer. What are the exact
loglines surrounding the end of the ntpd process?
Koos van den Hout
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