Re: Idea about a disc backed ram filesystem

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 16:27 -0300, Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> On 6/9/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 12:07 -0300, Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> > > Ok, but reality is that, even if i setup a swap partition with the
> > > most lazy swapiness, it will swap my processes out. Is there a
> > > pratical way to pin all processes to ram or otherwise tell the vm to
> > > never swap any process? If there is, then you are right, there is no
> > > point in doing this.
> > >
> >
> > echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
> >
> > Lee
> 
> Sorry, i took a look at the code which handles this and swappiness = 0
> doesnt seem to imply that process memory will never be swapped out.
> 

OK, then use mlockall().

Lee

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