On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 09:32:34AM -0600, Alan Somers wrote: > This change defeats the anticongestion mechanism. If > daily_ntpd_leapfile_background is set and 480.leapfile-ntpd runs > before any other periodic script that uses anticongestion (like > /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/410.pkg-audit), then the > anticongestion mechanism will effectively be disabled for those later > scripts. > > It's worth asking why you would want to do this in the background > anyway. Does the submitter complain that it was too slow? The entire > point of anticongestion is to slow it down. If the submitter didn't > like that, he could've set anticongestion_sleeptime=0 to disable it > entirely. Or was the problem that the "service ntpd onefetch" is too > slow, even after the anticongestion timer ran? I doubt it, but if so > then you should background just that part instead of backgrounding > anticongestion too.
Good questions, thank you Alan. The commit message should have included answers to them, by the way (* insert usual rant about quality of commit logs here *). ./danfe _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
