basically, i'd love to be able to run a command, as root is fine, to mlock the pages of a currently running app. Since this command would be in another process and therefore not the same VM area (barring the strace-ish tricks) then it seems like it can really only request that the kernel do this operation for him, right? There's a good # of apps that I only use on an interactive basis but take a good chunk of memory, and it'd be nice to get them pinned so that when I come back to them the next morning I'm not waiting "forever" for them to swap back in. Is this already doable and I just don't see it?
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