[Gllug] Reserving pagecache memory?

[Steve Mynott]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 05:49:25PM +0100, John Hearns typed:

> BTW, the lack of any floor in the cache in Linux is what results in
> you being unable to log into very busy systems - ie. the memory is all
> used up, and yous shell process cannot get into memory,  it is not
> that the system is too busy to read from disk as is often thought.
> (IRIX did have a floor on the cache, but I don't see you getting your
> Origins back out of the dumpster).

http://www.coker.com.au/memlockd/

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