Messages in this thread | | | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: "Swap in" an entire process? | Date | Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:05:20 +0100 |
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Hi Konstantin,
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 17:19, Konstantin Kudin wrote: > I have a question. Is there some way under linux to > "swap in" an entire process that got partially swapped > out? > > Basically, I want all the pages for a given PID > returned to RAM if they were paged out. The process to swap in can do that with mlockall().
> And vice versa, is there a way to "swap out" a > process by some command?
No, but munlockall will allow it to be swapped again. It will swap out while sleeping gradually, since it dirties no pages at all.
But there is no external trigger mechanism for this in Linux right now.
Regards
Ingo Oeser
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