I know it's a long time, but I'm cleaning up old NTP bugs atm.
While I totally agree with all that was said before, times have changed
since this went dormant and we have to look at it freshly.
For NTP, the config via -N works these days:
default:
(ps alx | head -1) ; (ps alx | grep ntpd) | grep -v grep
F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
5 114 10771 1 20 0 110040 4988 - Ss ? 0:00
/usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g -u 114:120
with cat /etc/default/ntp
NTPD_OPTS='-g -N'
F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
5 114 22635 1 -100 - 110032 4948 - Ssl ? 0:00
/usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g -N -u 114:120
So now the remaining request of the bug would be to make -N the default
- and since it works just as is now the patch itself would be rather
trivial.
But since the default time synchronization these days is via systemd anyway it
would only affect those explicitly using ntp.
That said I'll set this bug to incomplete for now, so it can time out if nobody
cares but live on if one does.
This shall not be an offense, if anybody still cares and considers it
important to change the default I'd encourage you to go to file a Debian
bug. I don't think this would be worth a Ubuntu delta, if Debian agrees
it would be picked up by the next merge.
** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229632
Title:
ntpd should run niced
Status in ntp package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Binary package hint: ntp
In ntp-4.2.4p4+dfsg debian/ntp.init starts ntpd with no special
priority (I believe this is not new).
If the system is busy at all when ntpd polls the jitter goes way up,
and ntpd gets nervous and drops the poll times (it's been a while
since I saw anything but 1024; 64 or 128 weren't uncommon before).
I'm guessing the attached patch will measurably decrease the load on
ntp.ubuntu.com, since I see that time synchronization installs ntpd.
Version commands output as requested:
jthill@shrdlu:~/src/ubuntu/ntp-4.2.4p4+dfsg$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
jthill@shrdlu:~/src/ubuntu/ntp-4.2.4p4+dfsg$ apt-cache policy ntp
ntp:
Installed: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-3ubuntu2
Candidate: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-3ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-3ubuntu2 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu-rocks.org hardy/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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