Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:53:32 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: Questions regarding Linux swapping. |
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On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Dominik Kubla wrote:
>> How about the opposite? Disallow programs to swap. After having a program >> go nuts and eat all the memory (assuming one would be at the keyboard), they >> could implement a sysrq key to disable further swapping. (sorta emulate >> swap being full) > >Well there used to be a Unix way of doing this: >Setting the 1000 flag on binaries used to lock them in memory. But that is not >implemented in Linux.
Is this not what the sticky bit does on files?
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