Re: [patch] swapin rlimit

Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-11-04T10:14:27Z

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 08:26 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> > Similarly, that SGI patch which was rejected 6-12 months ago to kill
> > off processes once they started swapping. We thought that it could be
> > done from userspace, but we need a way for userspace to detect when a
> > task is being swapped on a per-task basis.
>
> wouldnt the clean solution here be a "swap ulimit"?

Hmm, where is the difference to "mlockall(MCL_CURRENT|MCL_FUTURE);"?
OK, mlockall() can only be done by root (processes).

Bernd
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