Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:08:15 +0200 | From | Dominik Kubla <> | Subject | Re: Questions regarding Linux swapping. |
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On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 12:57:00PM -0400, Wakko Warner wrote: > > How about the opposite? Disallow programs to swap. After having a program > go nuts and eat all the memory (assuming one would be at the keyboard), they > could implement a sysrq key to disable further swapping. (sorta emulate > swap being full)
Well there used to be a Unix way of doing this: Setting the 1000 flag on binaries used to lock them in memory. But that is not implemented in Linux.
Yours, Dominik Kubla -- "Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment." --Philip K. Dick. "Author's Note," A SCANNER DARKLY, 1977
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