Re: can't mlockall() more than 128MB, is this a kernel limitiation ?

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Tue Aug 08 2000 - 09:27:24 EST


Hi!

> > No! No sysctl, thank you. Comment clearly says it is bogus, and now it
> > even hurts. Just delete the check.
>
> Without a check like that people will crash the machine and come and rant on
> here.

Yes. And with check they need _two_ such processes to crash the
machine, no? Okay, perhaps we can raise limit do 9/10 or total_memory
- 16Meg; that should prevent them ranting ;-).
                                                                Pavel

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