Re: install/56582: port-atari freeze on installation when extracting base.tgz

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-atari/56582; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, port-atari-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, dross%pobox.com@localhost
Subject: Re: install/56582: port-atari freeze on installation when extracting base.tgz
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:05:31 +0000

 On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 14:49, Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost> wrote:
 >
 > > On Dec 30, 2021, at 12:10 AM, Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> wrote:
 >
 > > mlockall() returns ENOMEM when the system- or per-process-limit is exceeded,
 > > you can ignore it. Worst thing is that ntpd gets swapped out and cannot
 > > sync time anymore.
 > >
 > > ntpd uses about 7MB RAM (about 3MB shared). You probably don't want
 > > to have this locked in memory on a small machine. Adding
 > >
 > > rlimit memlock -1
 > >
 > > to ntp.conf should prevent it from trying.
 >
 > I wonder if we should add a heuristic in ntpd to auto-tune for this.
 
 I'd be loudly in favour of this - people should be able to set things
 explicitly, but we really should be defaulting more things based on
 current memory and or relative compute level.
 
 David