GnuPG + FreeBSD 5.3 = intermitent memory warning

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i'm curious if OS-X has the same bug... has anyone checked to see if the 
error can be duplicated under similar conditions?



On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, David Shaw wrote:

> It took me a while to track this down, and thanks to Atom for helping me 
> run some FreeBSD tests.  It turns out that this isn't a GnuPG specific 
> problem.  The same problem can be duplicated by running any program that 
> calls mlock() on FreeBSD.
>
> FreeBSD has a "1/3 of memory" hard limit for mlock().  What seems to 
> have happened is that for whatever reason, Atom's system was very close 
> to the 1/3 magic number, and so when GnuPG tried to get its lock, it was 
> sometimes refused.  This also explains why a busy system seemed to 
> aggravate the problem.
>
> In terms of what to do about this in GnuPG, I'm not sure if there should 
> be anything done.  I think the the current GnuPG behavior is pretty 
> good: try to get locked memory, and if it can't, warn the user.


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