In "xntpd running amok", "Brad Salai" <bsalai@servtech.com> wrote: 
> After running for a while (a few days) xntpd starts to use a _lot_ of
> resources, like this:
> last pid: 1610624510;  load avera 2.27,  2.31,  2.30 2.31              04:38:23
> 45 processes:  3 running, 42 sleeping
> CPU states: 80.1% user, 14.3% nice,  5.5% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> Memory: 9544K Act 4908K Inact 3640K Wired 704K Free 6% Swap
> 
>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE   TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>   665 root      46    8   260K  384K run   389:27 132.08% 132.08% xntpd

Yes, I get this same behaviour using xntpd 3.5.88 or .88.2.  I chalked it
up to the software being beta, and didn't look into it any further.

If there's a fix, please let me know. ;-)

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