On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 09:54 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 03:43:23AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > I do not know of anyway of a userland application to force the kernel to > > not allow the use of swap. I can tell you definitely that I have not > > intentionally programmed yum to do that. > > mlockall(). > > It is normally the wrong thing to do. You can also hint to the kernel that > stuff is no longer needed using madvise(). > > This sounds rather more like an application programming issue however 8) Well, I'm open to suggestions. There is 200M of data to be written to a pickle file and I don't know of any way to write the pickle out in little pieces. -sv