Re: chronyc keeps on running

2017-10-06 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 12:38:19PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I do not get why chronyc should run and create such a racket at 100% > CPU. chronyc is used by a NetworkManager dispatcher script to switch NTP sources online or offline when the network configuration is changed. Maybe there is a bug

Re: chronyc keeps on running

2017-10-05 Thread George N. White III
On 5 October 2017 at 14:52, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 12:38:19PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Thanks! > > While it's true that I'm running Centos-7 instead of Fedora, CentOS also > uses chrony as its default ntp client. > With systemd there are 3 options: systemd-timesyncd

Re: chronyc keeps on running

2017-10-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ranjan Maitra writes: > > 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? ntpd is a viable alternative. > How important is

Re: chronyc keeps on running

2017-10-05 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 12:38:19PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Thanks! While it's true that I'm running Centos-7 instead of Fedora, CentOS also uses chrony as its default ntp client. On my system "ps ax | grep -i chrony" turns up two processes, chronyd, and the grep. # ps ax | grep -i chrony

Re: chronyc keeps on running

2017-10-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks! On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 13:05:27 -0400 Sam Varshavchik 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

Re: chronyc keeps on running

2017-10-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
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 goo

chronyc keeps on running

2017-10-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
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 enoug