Subject: Re: ntpd needs how much memory?
To: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/04/2000 15:27:09
"Kevin P. Neal" wrote:

> Whenever I try and run ntpd on my little 8 meg 486SX box I get this
> error (syslogged):
> 
> 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?

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