Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 08:09:54 -0600 From: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: anti-dog-piling and ntpd leap files Message-ID: <CAOtMX2j-Do-hvOE5-oVXb2ygA=%2BzvT2zyrVgAbKD6jwP_VHFAQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170522143102.70035d8d@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <D8A7B030-8D3D-4C16-8DB0-73C0A305FE78@webweaving.org> <20170522125307.76c9de6d@gumby.homeunix.com> <1104C7A7-5893-4602-9E34-5C212D987DAE@webweaving.org> <CAOtMX2guiGNaoWd6cqCJiWEE8SLUp1%2B2q87LJ7otM5VfmmSXtA@mail.gmail.com> <20170522143102.70035d8d@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 7:31 AM, RW via freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, 22 May 2017 07:04:27 -0600 > Alan Somers wrote: > > >> >>> Just wondering - how is the new ntpd leapfile fetching supposed to >> >>> work. I spot a dead normal entry: > >> >> BTW, in 11.1 the sleeps will all be < 1 hour and they won't be >> backgrounded anymore. > > That doesn't sound like a good idea. If they aren't backgrounded > they'll block the rest of periodic daily for up to an hour. Not much of > a problem on a server, but it would be when periodic is run from anacron > at boot time. Actually, there are already many periodic scripts from ports that include foreground sleeps, mostly notably 410.pkg-audit. Do those cause problems for anacron? I wouldn't think so, because anacron knows to restart a job that didn't complete the last time it was run.
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