hakavlad/prelockd
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Lock executables and shared libraries in memory to improve system responsiveness under low-memory conditions
7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2020-11-17 · latest 2026-03-07
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Potentially https://github.com/hakavlad/prelockd ?
comment by nasretdinov · 2026-03-07 · in Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces -
…least bad solution would be to warn user in advance and let them choose processes to kill. See also https://github.com/hakavlad/prelockd
comment by shatsky · 2025-09-21 · in In defence of swap: common misconceptions (2018) -
This may or may not preserve your desktop and other important applications in an OOM situation. https://github.com/hakavlad/prelockd I've heard some good results with it and the applications locked in memory is configurable.
comment by Timber-6539 · 2023-10-10 · in Linux ate my RAM (2009) -
I wonder how does this compare to the state of the art solutions from the author of Nohang: https://github.com/hakavlad/prelockd https://github.com/hakavlad/memavaild https://github.com/hakavlad/le9-patch in terms of % saved memory or %…
comment by The_rationalist · 2021-06-10 · in Introduce DAMON-based Proactive Reclamation -
…data does oomd does it too? Finally the author of nohang is working on arguably superior solutions: https://github.com/hakavlad/prelockd https://github.com/hakavlad/memavaild https://github.com/hakavlad/le9-patch It's unfortunate that…
comment by The_rationalist · 2021-03-14 · in Systemd 248 RC3: systemd-oomd is now considered fully supported -
Look at the new tools: https://github.com/hakavlad/prelockd https://github.com/hakavlad/memavaild It can greatly improve responsiveness. Demo: https://youtu.be/QquulJ06dAo - playing supertux + 12 `tail /dev/zero` in background…
comment by hakavlad · 2020-11-17 · in Run Python Applications Efficiently with malloc_trim