Re: Bug#1086000: ntpsec: ntpd runs with SCHED_FIFO 99 and might starve the system

2025-03-01 Thread James Browning via devel
> On 03/01/2025 6:06 AM PST Hal Murray via devel wrote: > I hope you/Debian don't have to maintain patches. They maintain some; I looked at the stack, and they are patches for clan Debian packages. I think Fedora does the same for RPM packaging. > ntpd only uses one thread. (more when doing DNS

Re: Bug#1086000: ntpsec: ntpd runs with SCHED_FIFO 99 and might starve the system

2025-03-01 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> This is from: https://bugs.debian.org/1086000 > Does anyone have insight on this? Is running at real-time priority > actually helpful to timekeeping accuracy? Yes, it helps. I don't have any numbers to say how much. How often is probably more interesting. I'd be happy if we changed it to old

Re: Bug#1086000: ntpsec: ntpd runs with SCHED_FIFO 99 and might starve the system

2025-03-01 Thread Richard Laager via devel
This is from: https://bugs.debian.org/1086000 Does anyone have insight on this? Is running at real-time priority actually helpful to timekeeping accuracy? If not, I'll remove this from the Debian package (and we should probably remove the option upstream entirely?). If it is helpful, is the