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Random man page:  unlockable_mem(5) -- amount of physical memory that may not be locked by user processes
Memory locking allows the privileged user to specify which pages need to remain in memory, and unaffected by the swap process. This feature allows you to ensure that memory access times are unaffected by delays introduced by memory paging and swapping. For example, locking is a tool provided to privileged users on a system that is short on physical memory. Instead of having these privileged proces...
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If you use the C shell, add the following line to the .cshrc file in your
home directory to prevent core files from being written to disk:

	limit coredumpsize 0
		-- Dru 
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