anti-dog-piling and ntpd leap files

[RW]

On Mon, 22 May 2017 12:01:29 +0200
Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:

> Just wondering - how is the new ntpd leapfile fetching supposed to
> work. I spot a dead normal entry:
> 
> 	May 22 03:01:00 lowcloud-storage /usr/sbin/cron[6258]: (root)
> CMD (periodic daily)
> 
> in /var/log/cron - and see the periodic scripts getting ran one by
> one.
> 
> Yet regularly - I see 3 of them still sitting pretty — even though
> their sleeps are all below < 24hours:
> 
> 	ps ...
..
> 
> That is not supposed to happen ? Correct ?

From the ps output it looks like there's one normal 480.leapfile-ntpd
process and two more running in jails.