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Subject: Re: Securelevel 3 ant setting time 
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> It may be worth noting that timed is much smaller and uses much
> less CPU than xntpd.

That's probably true - but on today's systems it's also for the most
part completely irrelevant. On a P-166 here an xntpd process which has
been running for 27 days has used all of 255 CPU seconds (ie. something
like 0.01%). It has a RSS of 476 kByte.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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