Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] swapin rlimit | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:14:27 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 08:26 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > > Similarly, that SGI patch which was rejected 6-12 months ago to kill > > off processes once they started swapping. We thought that it could be > > done from userspace, but we need a way for userspace to detect when a > > task is being swapped on a per-task basis. > > wouldnt the clean solution here be a "swap ulimit"?
Hmm, where is the difference to "mlockall(MCL_CURRENT|MCL_FUTURE);"? OK, mlockall() can only be done by root (processes).
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