Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 08:50:46 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.10 VM: what avoids from having lots of unwriteable inactive pages |
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > swap_out() will deactivate everything it finds to be not-recently used, > > and that's how the inactive list ends up getting replenished. > > mlock()
Hey, if you've mlock'ed more than your available memory, there's nothing the VM layer can do. Except maybe a nice printk("Kiss your *ss goodbye");
Linus
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