[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#423673: Bug#423673: Patch to eliminate once-per-second ntp daemon wakeup

[Kurt Roeckx]

forward 423673 https://ntp.isc.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=802
thanks

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 01:24:08PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> Package: ntp
> Version: 1:4.2.4p0-1.1

You're filing against version that never was in the archive?

> The NTP daemon is structured to wake up once per second to perform
> various housekeeping tasks, none of which need to happen this
> frequently. Eliminating spurious wakeups reduces power usage.
> See http://linuxpowertop.org for a tool that measures wakeups and
> reports CPU C-state statistics.

I've been following the upstream bug report already.


Kurt