From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:44:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:44:59 -0500 Received: from curry.ceng.metu.edu.tr ([144.122.171.200]:37570 "EHLO curry.ceng.metu.edu.tr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:44:58 -0500 Message-ID: <3E772604.5050604@ceng.metu.edu.tr> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 15:58:28 +0200 From: Mehmet Ersan TOPALOGLU Reply-To: mersan@ceng.metu.edu.tr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: process resident in memory References: <3E76BCA9.3060902@ceng.metu.edu.tr> <20030318134238.GA22953@riesen-pc.gr05.synopsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alex Riesen wrote: > Mehmet Ersan TOPALOGLU, Tue, Mar 18, 2003 07:28:57 +0100: > >>I am a newbie in kernel programming. >>And am sorry if something related previously asked. >>I wonder if it is possible to following situation is possible or not. >> >>let say i have a user process p1. > > > That (user process) has nothing to do with kernel programming. > > >>p1 does some malloc, and file i/o etc >>i initiate it during boot time. >>it stays resident in memory as if kernel it self (??) > > > no. It is as long resident as it wish. Or until it is killed. > > >>and its priority is very very high > > > it is irrelevant. > Well i guess i couldn't explain what i really meant. Thing is that i am trying to change kernel memory management specifically for one user process only. i.e if kernel sees this process it will treat it in a different manner. It won't let it to be swapped and give a very high priority to it. I just wondered the possiblity of this. Sorry for my poor english -- - mersan mersan@ceng.metu.edu.tr mersan@metu.edu.tr LIFE WORTH LIVING WITHOUT YOU?