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From: "Dan Maas" <dmaas@dcine.com>
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Subject: Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9
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> Agreed.  I'd be great if there was an option to say "Don't swap out
> memory that was allocated by these programs.  If you run out of disk
> buffers, toss the oldest ones and start re-using them."

Have you tried mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)? It's a sledge-hammer but it will do
what you ask...

Dan