Re: [ntp:questions] Linux and mlockall()

2008-12-19 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article %sbusjd...@khar-pern.talamasca.ocis.net, Michael Deutschmann mich...@talamasca.ocis.net writes: Michael One thing I thought I knew about the standard NTP distribution, was Michael that it uses the mlockall() call, when available, to prevent Michael swapping and thus gain more

[ntp:questions] Linux and mlockall()

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Deutschmann
One thing I thought I knew about the standard NTP distribution, was that it uses the mlockall() call, when available, to prevent swapping and thus gain more repeatable latencies. However, recently I had cause to run nm on ntpd, and was surprised to note no references to mlockall(). A check with