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From: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>,
	John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)
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On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 01:17:15AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200001011747.JAA45272@vashon.polstra.com>, John Polstra writes:
> >In article <20000101113750.B89903@Denninger.Net>,
> >Karl Denninger  <karl@Denninger.Net> wrote:
> >> 
> >> It looks like ntpd (the new one) works correctly; I grabbed the latest
> >> from the official site last night and by this morning the dispersion 
> >> and offsets were stable.
> >
> >BTW, you might want to add these lines (from LINT) to your kernel
> >config if you haven't already:
> >
> >#####################################################################
> ># POSIX P1003.1B
> > 
> ># Real time extensions added int the 1993 Posix
> ># P1003_1B: Infrastructure
> ># _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING: Build in _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING
> ># _KPOSIX_VERSION:             Version kernel is built for 
> >
> >options         "P1003_1B" 
> >options         "_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING"
> >options         "_KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L" 
> >
> >Current versions of ntpd use these features if they're available.  I
> >think "_KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L" is the default, so that one probably
> >isn't strictly necessary.
> 
> I seriously doubt using these will do anything for NTPDs performance.

It won't, but it will stop ntpd from bitching in the syslog about them being
missing :-)

- Karl


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