Re: can't mlockall() more than 128MB, is this a kernel limitiation ?

Robert H. de Vries (rhdv@rhdv.cistron.nl)
Sun, 6 Aug 2000 16:50:19 +0200

On Sun, 06 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>> IMHO, an ordinary user may only lock a limited amount of memory. Maybe it
>> is wise to specify a certain amount which may *not* be locked. This memory
>> is reserved for the rest of the processes.
>
>Right now Linux isnt tracking per user resources. You need the beancounter
>addons to implement per user memory like that

I think Linus has just (test6-pre series) put this facility in the kernel.
See the new kernel/user.c.

Robert

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Robert de Vries
rhdv@rhdv.cistron.nl


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