Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Aug 2000 23:53:13 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: can't mlockall() more than 128MB, is this a kernel limitiation ? |
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Hi!
> ----- > /* we may lock at most half of physical memory... */ > /* (this check is pretty bogus, but doesn't hurt) */ > if (locked > num_physpages/2) > goto out; > ----- > > Argh ! this is bogus ! , on my 250MB RAM BOX , I want to be able to mlock at > least something like 200-220MB , > > What is the purpose of this artificial limitation ? > I agree that running out of phys pages is bad, but with those big mem sizes like > 256-512MB, a margin of 30-50MB (configurable) should be enough.
> Can we make this configurable via sysctl in 2.4 ? > (without this realtime multimedia apps will be unable to take advantage of the > full amount of RAM, because swappable mem is useless in certain > cases)
No! No sysctl, thank you. Comment clearly says it is bogus, and now it even hurts. Just delete the check. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
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