Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:26:13 +0800
From: Ivan Tham <pickfire@riseup.net>
To: duanyao@ustc.edu
Cc: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org, developer@it-offshore.co.uk
Subject: Re: Re: [alpine-devel] Chronyd blocks boot for ~5s. How
 can I improve this?
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I didn't notice slowdown with chronyd as I had enable rc_parallel.

But I did notice that I have to wait for tor to finish starting up which to=
ok
some time and as well it is the last service to be started on boot.

By the way duan yao, do you use IME in alpine?

=E6=AE=B5=E5=9E=9A <duanyao@ustc.edu> wrote:

> =E5=9C=A8 2017/3/15 22:08, Stuart Cardall =E5=86=99=E9=81=93:
>=20
> > I noticed this with chronyd too - now I use sntpc with:
> >
> > SNTPC_INTERVAL=3D"21600"
> >
> > set in /etc/conf.d/sntpc
> >
> > Stuart Cardall.
> >
> >
> Great to know sntp.
>=20
> I also found that I can workaround this issue by add `--background`=20
> option to `start-stop-daemon` in `/etc/init.d/chronyd`.
> However don't know whether this breaks anything.
>=20
> > On 03/15/2017 06:50 AM, =E6=AE=B5=E5=9E=9A wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm new to Apline and just installed Apline 3.5.2 to hard disk (in=20
> >> Virtualbox, x86_64) with default options. During the boot, I note=20
> >> that chronyd takes ~5 seconds to start, which I think is too much.=20
> >> How can I improve this?
> >>
> >> Wireshark shows that there are 3~4 NTP requests sent during the boot=
=20
> >> with a interval ~2s, I think this explains why chronyd takes so much=
=20
> >> time to start. But why can't it do this in background?
> >>
> >> I try to start chronyd in command line, it also takes >5s before=20
> >> going to background:
> >>
> >> # rc-service chronyd stop
> >>  * Stopping chronyd ...
> >> # time chronyd
> >> real    0m 7.37s
> >> user    0m 0.00s
> >> sys    0m 0.00s
> >>
> >> However I failed to find an option for command line or configure file=
=20
> >> to change this behavior.



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