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From: sullivan@DPW.COM (David J. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Locking or wiring a process in memory.
Keywords: lock, wire, memory, process
Message-ID: <2988@esquire.dpw.com>
Date: 16 Jan 91 19:07:06 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
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With OSx 5.0 and above the `launchit' utility is a handy way to give
server processes nice characteristics -- more file descriptors,
unlimited forks, locking them to a CPU.

Is there a way to lock a process in memory so that it is never swapped
or paged out?

I'd like to have my Sybase dataserver stay in main memory forever.  I
don't need it to be bound to a CPU, but wouldn't be adverse to doing that
if it has the side effect of keeping it resident.

David Sullivan

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