[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Package merging

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Bdale Garbee wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 20:44 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
>   
>>
>> Is there some huge advantage of running the "simple" daemon over the
>> refclock one?
>>     
>
> Memory consumption.
>   

[I'm guessing that you meant to send this to the list, not just me
personally. My apologies if not.]

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root       935  0.1  3.5  2228 2228 ?        SL   Mar02 231:37 /usr/sbin/ntpd


That's from an admittedly-outdated ntpd, compiled with (and using) a
refclock driver. NTPd doesn't use that much memory.

Doing a quick experiment with testing's ntpd:

root     17140  0.0  0.6   3412  3412 ?        SLs  23:33   0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid
root     17198  0.3  0.7   3872  3872 ?        SLs  23:35   0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid

The first one is ntp-simple; the second is ntp-refclock. It looks like
we're talking 460K of memory (ntp 1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1, on i386).
Considering the small savings, I suggest just dropping ntp-simple —
always build with the refclock drivers.