Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:02:34 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to protect process from pageout killing Message-ID: <10261.1048975354@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:10:32 PST." <200303280910.32307.wes@softweyr.com>
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In message <200303280910.32307.wes@softweyr.com>, Wes Peters writes: >I've reworked my patch to use the madvise(2) syscall, like the original >4.x patch did. I've even documented it, in a man page of all places. >Please see attached patch. If nobody objects, I'll commit sometime this >weekend. I'm still not certain about the inheritance of this, do we want/is it inherited ? Also, thinking about it, on at least a handful of machines I would have more use for MADV_KILLMEFIRST having the exact opposite behaviour. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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