Does it actually work?

Posted Apr 8, 2025 10:02 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Does it actually work? by pabs
Parent article: Three ways to rework the swap subsystem

> lock into RAM itself and everything needed for a rescue login console, the files needed for a VT switch, login, a root shell session

This is, I suspect, more or less what Solaris had decades ago to protect emergency access in the case of a swap storm. I don't know the details unfortunately - but it had some kind of mechanism.