Re: [chrony-dev] [PATCH] MacOS X - Increase priority of chronyd process

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On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 08:55:28AM +1200, Bryan Christianson wrote:
> Run chronyd with a 'nice' value of -15. Also run chronyd as a near real time process to prevent pre-empting of timing calculations and adjustments. This patch has the effect of removing an observed 1usec bias from the mean 'System time' offset.

Should this be enabled by default? I suspect most users won't care
about 1us offset. How about making it configurable with the -P option?
If there is no scale as with the Linux SCHED_FIFO priority, it could
be just 0 for disabled and 1 enabled.

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Miroslav Lichvar

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