Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?

[Kevin Burton]

Though mlockall isn't going to fix this problem because the OOM killer
will still kill it if it runs out of memory.

I want to preserve the scenario where we go 10 bytes over memory and
the kernel just swaps out those 10 bytes.

Kevin

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Kevin Burton <burton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We're actually running mlock which is native to MySQL.... of course I
> didn't think about whether our secondary process is paging not our
> MySQL process.


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