Thanks! On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 13:05:27 -0400 Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ranjan Maitra writes: > > > Over the past few weeks, my laptop has been running chronyc at full blast. > > > > $top > > > > 12657 root 20 0 20624 1308 1160 R 93.8 0.0 1739:52 chronyc > > > > I looked up chronyc and found that this controls NTP. I use NTP, but do I > > need to keep this around? Or is the good old ntp good enough? From what I > > understand, openntp would also work but that is not available on Fedora. > > > > I guess I am wondering if there is a major cost to sudo dnf erase chronyc > > -y. > > The major cost is that if your puter's clock is off, its internal time will > slowly drift apart. Will ntpd not address this issue? > > How important is having the system time accurate is to you? > To the extent that I am able to fetchmail from my mail servers for which I think we need reasonably accurate system time? I do not get why chronyc should run and create such a racket at 100% CPU. Thanks again! Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
