On 13 Jul 2000 jmcmullan@linuxcare.com wrote:
> A root-owned daemon that has made sure to lock down
>any memory it may need via mlock() won't have any swapping
>issues. Running at nice -20, or even better, FIFO scheduling,
>you can eat as much (or as little) of a timeslice from other
>apps as needed.
Yep. Check out the skeleton program on my web page if you're interested in
this. Not fully functional, but it is headed down the right road. (I have
stopped developing it as nobody has expressed any interest in using it,
and I don't need it either.)
> Your thoughts?
Only one: a user-space daemon is great, but the kernel still needs an OOM
killer.
Dave
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Astrophysics graduate student University of California, Santa Barbara
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