[PATCH] Protect inetd and cron from being killed under high-pressure swapping

Attilio Rao attilio at freebsd.org
Wed Nov 18 22:42:00 UTC 2009


2009/11/16 Attilio Rao <attilio at freebsd.org>:
> This simple patch protects inetd and cron from being killed under
> high-pressure swapping systems:
> http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/Sandvine/STABLE_8/madvised/madvised.diff

After getting some comments, I decided to include in the list of
"protected" processes also syslogd and sshd:
http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/Sandvine/STABLE_8/madvised/madvised2.diff

Comments, reviews and testing are welcome.

Thanks,
Attilio


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