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SubjectRe: mlockability
"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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