Re: netbsd-5 deadlocks when memory is low

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 09:17:29AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 10:46:50AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > You have mlock(2) for this. I think ntpd uses it, you can have a look here.
> > Of course you don't want to mlock a big process ...
> 
> Do you suggest to use mlock(NULL, (size_t)-1) ?

this probably won't work. Look at how ntpd uses it ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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