Re: Questions regarding Linux swapping.

Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:53:32 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Dominik Kubla 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.

Is this not what the sticky bit does on files?

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