Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:59:47 -0300 | From | Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <> | Subject | Re: mlockability |
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"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
> Hi, > > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:37:09 -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro > <jcastro@appi.com.br> said: > > > Couldn't there be a kernel option (maybe tunable by /proc/something) > > through wich the kernel could grant a limited amount of mlock-able > > memory for each non-root process? This could default to 0 but be > > increased when sensitive software is being used. > > It needs to be per-user, not just per-process, but yes this would be a > useful thing to do. The beancounter patches floating about already > implement a lot of the necessary framework for this.
Can you pass us a link? And what are these patches for?
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