On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 8:37 AM Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro@gnome.org wrote:
I think a change to remove chronyd in favor of timesyncd might be accepted for Workstation.
It's much simpler. Off hand I can't think of what Workstation would be missing out on.
rngd makes me a bit batty - mainly because I get non-deterministic results between VM, and three real computers, i.e four different behaviors. On each, it runs twice, slightly different results between the two executions almost like it wants to try to run early to see if it can succeed, but on these systems it doesn't so it runs again later too. I have no idea if it's correct but systemd really dings the CPU usage quite heavily.
Jul 10 15:46:15 fnuc.local systemd[1]: rngd.service: Consumed 18.120s CPU time.
That's the worst offender. Most are in the 4-8 second range. On 2 of the 4 systems I've uninstalled rng-tools. I have no idea if it's needed for some purposes.