How to lock a process in RAM (make it unswapable)

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Is there a way to instruct the kernel (Linux kernel) to never swap a certain process that has already been started?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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I don't think you can do this directly from the command line, you would have to do something with the mlock(2) or mlockall(2) functions. There is some discussion of this on stackoverflow here

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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How to lock a process in RAM (make it unswapable)

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