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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] ..chk 'man niceload', was: Disabling daemon/process swap on Devuan
Le 24/10/2025 à 23:08, Arnt Karlsen a écrit :
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:29:21 +1100, wirelessduck--- wrote in message
> <A12C7FA7-3765-479D-942C-0D505955E080@???>:
>
>>> On 23 Oct 2025, at 01:50, Steve Litt <slitt@???>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Tom via Dng said on Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:00:50 +1100
>>>    
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm planning to install openbao and in the install guide[1] it
>>>> suggests disabling swap for the process.  This appears to be a
>>>> simple configuration line in the included systemd unit file but
>>>> I'm not sure what the equivalent would be on Devuan?
>>> swapoff
>>>
>>> ???
>>>
>>> SteveT
>>>
>>> Steve Litt
>>>
>>> http://444domains.com
>> Thanks Steve. I did look at that but it seems to turn off swap for
>> the entire system and not work on individual processes.
> ..from the 'man niceload' 'OPTIONS' section:
>
>    --noswap
>         -N  No swapping. If the system is swapping both in and out
>             it is a good indication that the system is memory stressed.
>
>             --noswap is over limit if the system is swapping both
>                  in and out.
>
>             --noswap will set both --start-noswap and run-noswap.
>
>


    Tried it with my application "otari":

kryn@apcnb98:~$ niceload -N otari

From another xterm:

kryn@apcnb98:~$ pgrep otari
4979
kryn@apcnb98:~$ grep VmLck /proc/4979/status
VmLck:           0 kB

    Means 0kB of memory pages locked in RAM.

--     Didier