[ntp:questions] Re: Locking memory in ntp

David Schwartz davids at webmaster.com
Mon Sep 29 19:48:23 UTC 2003


"Gopal" <k_gopalakrishnan at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:f6b5173d.0309291140.473f004b at posting.google.com...

> >     The whole purpose of NTP is to keep time accurately. If you have
> > unpredictable delays as memory is faulted in, you can't do that.
> >
> >     DS
>
> So, If you dont do paging then you need not lock the memory.  Is that
right?

    It depends upon whether your OS discards clean pages. If it does,
locking the memory would still be needed.

    DS





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