From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Oct 20 15:13:13 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F61C1A283 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:13:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-lf0-x234.google.com (mail-lf0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c07::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 87980B17 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:13:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by mail-lf0-x234.google.com with SMTP id l131so83764931lfl.2 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 08:13:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=E2lhlHypDyuWQSrKXx9m3FA70R9Ale8xapEDrQSL9ng=; b=aKsotATmMVFsREMzH/ZGjuXUGiWjlQWb8WHpE2ahcTIlR0/njw/3X6j4iRV8Ax9Y3/ Gx2oUHF+jrPQushbP8er7stGo6NxN0tQ86bREewnlzf3C2sDXW4rWNdOcH6ELM6O3KD/ A3/YVWeVV+Mfpni/VzWPGzGMLJsxFyDSXNPyViKoiOBOOVYosrXxbpczbM70xrthh+1F Ld3Bo+AaDTyWjtuDrosZDYzmk/nBNu2/03jq3sBYYBhH/fjHHIbVT4Bvc8+xqqsk6rf0 Lo0QSjITNJaE8FDlnChh24Z/dbQqxXke6uNgZLQoeP2RUoGHViG7d9rYoCKRKgEqWypL aXaA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=E2lhlHypDyuWQSrKXx9m3FA70R9Ale8xapEDrQSL9ng=; b=GdIJ4b7+07UNxjs6nkO0udwK9Aif1RHyNliywAUyMtytYEQjdjUJpS2G3WmbTMnawR fsR9HsnGLVKHI/6+25dAh9E5+7ePWCiTi6t3+Z1n4sb21wndcqN7tItQxmiIZVwtpJLr HgsX04WTgu3r0u93ex+nV2rd/KKIxNgkH/WJhiUNnZtVgygQsrXNi3gpK+BXxdCupgHB VVUsbb5bNhdVa2L9/M78DeY/6xmTUS+ugMXhWzMutK51HokWxPJCcmTgnvcgOfgUd4MR c/EXuYNTK4Nk6gJ2oahxD1Cpq6WIe3nf+6fVUXPyYScjyEsRwPkh6/DMw6tO3jHfXr6A s/rA== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RlhLa/2A/vzFmZEYAj01pNHXZcb2Z1v8iekGdY0sl/5s1rsf8yPw1/EElw/1+Yo+A== X-Received: by 10.25.207.131 with SMTP id f125mr2071984lfg.181.1476976388367; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 08:13:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com ([81.17.24.158]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 76sm12405216ljb.43.2016.10.20.08.13.07 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Thu, 20 Oct 2016 08:13:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 16:13:03 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 11.0 with base ntpd daily leapfile problem Message-ID: <20161020161303.01e3e540@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: References: <5808D23D.5000306@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:13:13 -0000 On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:31:15 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: If you enable > 'daily_ntpd_avoid_congestion' in your periodic.conf (it's enabled by > default) then it may cause your daily period scripts to take hours > longer to complete each day (although most of that time will be taken > up by the process sleeping). It wont hold-up periodic because it's done in the background. A reason for turning it off is that the length of the delay means that on machines that are frequently rebooted or aren't always on, the file may expire before it's replaced.