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>> At this point I thought you were going to suggest user swap >> files. That a user can use up his disk quota to create swap files that >> are used only for processing running with his user id. This could be a >> really good idea, since it could for example protect root processes >> from out of swap problems created by ordinary users by granting swap >> space from separate root swap storage. >Note that processes that expect to be VM hogs should probably do their >own "swap" allocation with mmap() or some such. What would be nice to >go with that is an extention to malloc & friends so that you could >mmap yourself some fresh VM, and tell malloc to use that as the arena >(or to add it to the existing arena)... > > Keith This is already available with the mmalloc package that comes with gdb and Checker. -- Gene McCulley mcculley@iag.net http://www.iag.net/~mcculley | ||||||||||||
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