On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
>> A privileged user can prevent or allow swapping of a shared memory
>> segment with the following cmds:
>> SHM_LOCK prevents swapping of a shared memory segment. The user
>> must fault in any pages that are required to be present
>> after ...
>
>> I've done a grep through the code, to see if its something that we do use, and
>> it doesn't seem to come back with anything ...
>
> No, we don't. "privileged user" means root, so it's not possible for us
> to set that.
Ya, that's what I was figuring, but figured someone with more Linux
knowledge might know a 'loophole' we could exploit :)
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