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    SubjectRe: [patch] swapin rlimit
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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).

    Bernd
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