Re: mlockability
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 22:55:17 +0100 (BST)
> If you create 4096 processes, their task_structs take 32MB themselves,
> page tables will take another large amount of unswappable memory. Given
> that, the 16 megabytes which can be eaten by mlock()ing don't seem to
> cause much more harm.
This is a fine example of why you want per user resident resource tracking.
The beancounter stuff actually bounds stuff like page tables even
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