[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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