Package: memlockd
Status: install ok unpacked
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 60
Maintainer: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.3.1-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.38), adduser
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Conffiles:
 /etc/default/memlockd 1c2dffc387da99a3646143858519bd07
 /etc/init.d/memlockd e2e2b387b8aced7e99096e839da0af29
 /etc/memlockd.cfg 65382cff2c0001b9c984bd785192c5ad
Description: daemon to lock files into RAM
 When a system starts paging excessively it may be impossible for the sysadmin
 to login for the purpose of killing the runaway processes (sometimes the
 login program times out due to thrashing).  Memlockd allows important system
 files (such as /bin/login, /bin/getty, and the admin shell) to be locked in
 memory so that there will be no delay in accessing executable pages.  In my
 tests this can decrease the time required for the administrator to login on a
 thrashing system by a factor of more than 3.