[ntp:hackers] ntpd process residency/priority issues

Harlan Stenn stenn at ntp.isc.org
Wed Sep 27 20:39:28 UTC 2006


Folks,

I've added a new topic to http://ntp.isc.org/Dev/DevelopmentIssues and
I'd appreciate useful feedback on it:

 http://ntp.isc.org/Dev/NtpdProcessResidencyIssues

(I'm not thrilled with the topic name, but it will do for now).

The crux of the issue is that Long Ago we had no good way to get a
receive timestamp on a packet, so we came up with things like using
different process priority mechanisms and locking memory down.  While
there were good reasons for this for some versions of some OSes, this
behavior is now suboptimal for more recent versions of some of those
OSes.

H


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