Subject: Re: ntpd needs how much memory?
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/04/2000 07:23:39
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 03:27:09PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:

 > > mlockall(): Cannot allocate memory
 > 
 > It looks like ntpd wants to lock the entire process in memory.  On my
 > -current i386, this appears to be around 3.4MB.  That syslog message
 > should be only a warning - does ntpd continue to otherwise run ok?

Right, it probably wants to do this to reduce latency on a loaded
system.

It should only be a warning.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>