On Wed, 09 Mar, 2005 at 11:27AM -0600, Jack O'Quin spake thus: > > > On Wed, 09 Mar, 2005 at 06:12AM -0800, Robert Persson spake thus: > >> I asked this question on the gentoo-users list and apparently if I put > >> > >> options realtime gid=18 mlock=1 > >> > >> into /etc/modules.d/realtime > >> > >> that should do the trick. I'll try it out tomorrow. > >> Robert. > > james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > Well, I do as suggested above, but I use: > > > > realtime any=1 > > > > What's the significance of using mlock? > > It enables programs to lock memory using the mlock() and mlockall() > system calls. Since mlock=1 is the default, leaving it off has no > effect. If you don't need to lock memory, setting mlock=0 will remove > that capability. > > BTW, I recommend using the `gid' option instead of `any'. It provides > noticeably better security for very little extra effort. Yeah, I'm lazy. If you ask nicely, I'll give you my bank details. -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
