[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#793745: Bug#793745: ntp fails to start

Michael Stone mstone at debian.org
Thu Jul 30 12:07:29 UTC 2015


Based on the conversations upstream, I'd say that rlimit memlock 0 
should be the default in debian, not something that needs to be added to 
working configs. (It appears that beyond the startup issue, it's fairly 
common for running ntpd's to crash with out-of-memory errors when using 
memlock. The feature is fairly useless for leaf nodes, and actual 
high-precision servers probably don't want to randomly die at least as 
much as they want a theoretical performance increase.) If someone really 
wants this, they can turn it on.

Mike Stone



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