Re: Questions regarding Linux swapping.

Dominik Kubla (dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de)
Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:08:15 +0200

On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 12:57:00PM -0400, Wakko Warner wrote:
>
> How about the opposite? Disallow programs to swap. After having a program
> go nuts and eat all the memory (assuming one would be at the keyboard), they
> could implement a sysrq key to disable further swapping. (sorta emulate
> swap being full)

Well there used to be a Unix way of doing this:
Setting the 1000 flag on binaries used to lock them in memory. But that is not
implemented in Linux.

Yours,
Dominik Kubla

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