From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263316AbTJESWV (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 14:22:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263330AbTJESWV (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 14:22:21 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:60342 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263316AbTJESWU (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 14:22:20 -0400 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: swap and 2.4.20 Organization: Deban GNU/Linux Homesite In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.1-20030907 ("Sandray") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.20-xfs (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 20:21:27 +0200 X-Scanner: exiscan *1A6DVX-0007dB-00*zNmqf8i1G0g* Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article you wrote: > I have a different - slightly academic - question. Is it possible to turn > off swapping? (not turn off swap) Ie. to prevent the kernel from > unloading paged-in read-only executables? I realise this is a tough > question with mmap being used for many other things besides executables... I think you mean paging? Read Only executable pages mapped to executables will not be put/read from swap. Greetings Bernd -- eckes privat - http://www.eckes.org/ Project Freefire - http://www.freefire.org/