Pavel Machek wrote: > *Good starting point*. > > Anyway, one solution would be to simply mlockall() on that replugitd Unfortunately, mlockall() isn't effective for an X application (for the dialog) because the X server needs resources too, and that's not usually mlock'd because it's too big. (It would be nice to have a general solution to allow mlock'd GUI applications). > and/or make dirty data hdd based (not ram based) Ooh, swappable dirty data... nice idea :) > and/or restricting dirty buffers to 10MB for removable media. That seems like the simplest effective solution. -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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