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		aktau 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap > The OS should also allow marking pages as piority to stop them from being swapped out. This is IIUC possible using the mlock(2) family of syscalls: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mlock.2.html. (On Linux, though I'm guessing other UNIXen and operating systems have it or something equivalent.)
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torginus 6 days ago [–]

Cool. So this should be a bug ticket, not irrefutable proof that GCs suck :D

MrDrMcCoy 5 days ago | [–]

Nor to falsely indicate that swap is bad.

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