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SubjectRe: kswapd is killable
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 asethman@mandate-inc.com wrote:

> So basically a word of advice...if you don't want it dead
> don't be killing it...I guess there could be reasons as
> to why you'd want to kill kswapd. I can't think of any
> though. I guess if you want to defeat this "feature"
> Just #if 0 out the siginitsetinv line in mm/vmscan.c

Not enough, without doing a flush_signals() at every kswapd loop you risk
a memory leakage (you never kfree sigqueue memory eventually allocated).


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