[ extract of message from Scott Ellis on "Re: xntpd running amok" ]
} 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. ;-)
}

I'm using version 3.5f and not having any problems like that. It actually
operates fairly well, though every two weeks or so it gives up and I have
to restart it, but that seems to be because the macs clock is loosing so
much time.

	david