On Aug 3, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I also saw similar a couple days ago on NetBSD/i386 2.0.2, but not  
> a kernel thread.
>
> USER  PID %CPU %MEM  VSZ   RSS TT STAT STARTED   TIME     COMMAND
> mail  268  0.0  1.9  708  1740 ?? Ss   11:26AM   0:-3.36 /usr/pkg/ 
> sbin/exim -bd -q30m (exim-4.44-1)
>
> The rc.conf has ntpdate=YES and also runs "/etc/rc.d/ntpdate start"  
> once each night.

Don't run ntpdate daily to set the time.

Run ntpd, it's going to do a much better job of keeping your clocks  
syncronized, and will try to slew the clock rather than jump or step  
the clock, which will avoid or reduce problems seen from the clock  
changing abruptly.

-- 
-Chuck