Re: Idea about a disc backed ram filesystem

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 16:43 -0300, Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> On 6/9/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 16:27 -0300, Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> > > Sorry, i took a look at the code which handles this and swappiness = 0
> > > doesnt seem to imply that process memory will never be swapped out.
> > >
> >
> > OK, then use mlockall().
> >
> > Lee
> >
> >
> 
> If i make init mlockall, would all child processes be mlocked too?

No.

> If not, using this to enforce a system wide policy seems a bit hacky
> and non trivial.
> 

Well, what you are trying to do seems hacky.  What real world problem
are you trying to solve that setting swappiness to 0 is not sufficient
for?

Lee