Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 2 Nov 2001 19:12:09 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Google's mm problem - not reproduced on 2.4.13 |
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> If root wants to shoot himself in the head by mlocking all of memory, > that's not a VM problem, that's a stupid administrator problem.
The kernel limits the amount of mlock()d memory to 50% of RAM, so we _should_ be ok.
(yes, this limit is per process, but daniel only has one process running anyway)
regards,
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