Re: [patch] swapin rlimit

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 08:26 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> 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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