Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: guarantee_memory() syscall? | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 29 Oct 2000 06:31:45 -0700 |
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Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com> writes:
> Can anyone tell me about the viability of a guarantee_memory() syscall? > > [I'm thinking: it would either kill the process, or allocate all virtual > memory needed for its shared libraries, buffers, allocated memory, etc. > Furthermore, it would render this process immune to the OOM killer, > unless it allocated further memory.]
Except for the OOM killer semantics mlockall already exists.
Eric
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