Re: swap and 2.4.20

[Bernd Eckenfels]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310051559340.5605-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> I have a different - slightly academic - question.  Is it possible to turn
> off swapping? (not turn off swap)  Ie. to prevent the kernel from
> unloading paged-in read-only executables?  I realise this is a tough
> question with mmap being used for many other things besides executables...

I think you mean paging? Read Only executable pages mapped to executables
will not be put/read from swap.

Greetings
Bernd
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