[ale] Swap Memory usage

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Tue Sep 23 09:07:47 EDT 2003


On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Stephen Leonard wrote:

> I think the standard method is to use mlock(2) to keep pages
> resident in memory.  However, I didn't see any occurences of
> it with a quick grep through openssh-3.7.1p1.

It is the standard tool, but it's not used much b/c on many systems 
(including Linux), only root can mlock() for security reasons. Rather than 
having to make ssh-agent, the ssh client, etc., SUID, it's just not used in 
them....

later,
chris



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