Re: Kswapd flaw

[Michal Schmidt]

Al Boldi wrote:
> Kswapd starts evicting processes to fullfil a malloc, when it should just
> deny it because there is no swap.

The kernel can always discard pages of executables and read-only mapped 
files, because it can load them back if necessary. If you don't like 
this, call mlockall() in your program.

Michal
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