From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "Swap in" an entire process?
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:05:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200402270805.32965.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040225161911.22361.qmail@web21203.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi Konstantin,
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 17:19, Konstantin Kudin wrote:
> I have a question. Is there some way under linux to
> "swap in" an entire process that got partially swapped
> out?
>
> Basically, I want all the pages for a given PID
> returned to RAM if they were paged out.
The process to swap in can do that with mlockall().
> And vice versa, is there a way to "swap out" a
> process by some command?
No, but munlockall will allow it to be swapped
again. It will swap out while sleeping gradually, since it dirties no
pages at all.
But there is no external trigger mechanism for this in Linux right now.
Regards
Ingo Oeser
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2004-02-25 16:19 Konstantin Kudin
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