Thanks, I pushed this to master, branch-1.7, branch-1.6, and I'll 
crossport to earlier branches in a while.

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 04:24:22PM -0400, Justin Pettit wrote:
> Great catch!  Thanks, Ben.
> 
> --Justin
> 
> 
> On Jun 29, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> > mlockall(2) says:
> > 
> >     Memory  locks  are not inherited by a child created via fork(2) and are
> >     automatically removed  (unlocked)  during  an  execve(2)  or  when  the
> >     process terminates.
> > 
> > which means that --mlockall was ineffective in combination with --detach
> > or --monitor or both.  Both are used in the most common production
> > configuration of Open vSwitch, so this means that --mlockall has never been
> > effective in production.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
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