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Date:      Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:38:51 +0200
From:      Maxime Henrion <mux@qualys.com>
To:        Dwayne <Dwayne.MacKinnon@xwave.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Memory allocation question
Message-ID:  <20011002233851.A1317@nebula.cybercable.fr>
In-Reply-To: <3BBA29C0.5E125DAF@xwave.com>
References:  <3BBA29C0.5E125DAF@xwave.com>

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Dwayne wrote:
>      I'm creating an app where I want to use memory to store data so I
> can get at it quickly. The problem is, I can't afford the delays that
> would occur if the memory gets swapped out. Is there any way in FreeBSD
> to allocate memory so that the VM system won't swap it out?
> 
I think mlock(2) is what you want.

Maxime Henrion
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