How to prevent a specific program from swapping?
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Is it possible to prevent a specific program (i.e. rhythmbox and its dependencies) from ever swapping to disk? I'm asking because I have a problem when a music player hiccups whenever Chromium hogs too much memory. Is there a way to work around this? This isn't a problem in Windows anymore so presu…
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I think that the hiccup problem is not necessarily caused by swapping. If a program is playing something, Linux should notice this and not swap it. Programs that don't do much are the first ones that get swapped. You can check if the program is real…
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