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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: can't mlockall() more than 128MB, is this a kernel limitiation ?
From:       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa () zytor ! com>
Date:       2000-08-08 20:32:01
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Followup to:  <20000808162724.D23518@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
By author:    Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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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