Re: Keeping data from swapping

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From: Graham Stoney
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 00:52

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dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>    The only way I know of to wire pages in memory is through
>    kern_serv_wire_range() but it is totally undocumented.  I've never
>    tried it myself and it probably wouldn't work from a user process.

I'll be the first to admit that NeXT's documentation, particularly about
loadable kernel servers is _badly_ lacking, but can we stick to facts when
we're NeXT-bashing please?

kern_serv_wire_range() is documented: check in NeXT Developer of the Digital
Librarian. As to whether it will solve the original poster's problem or not...

Graham

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