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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
By author:    Pavel Machek <[e-mail]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Yes. And with check they need _two_ such processes to crash the
> machine, no? Okay, perhaps we can raise limit do 9/10 or total_memory
> - 16Meg; that should prevent them ranting ;-).
> 								Pavel

The check should be done on the total amount of memory mlocked in the
system.  This may be something that we can't do until we have the
beancounter.

	-hpa
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