Thanks!
On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 13:05:27 -0400 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> 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
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