From: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: stone_wang@sohu.com, riel@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.6.11-rc5: kernel/sys.c setrlimit() RLIMIT_RSS cleanup
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:56:08 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16930.24088.251669.488622@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050227023136.0d1528a7.akpm@osdl.org>
>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
Andrew> <stone_wang@sohu.com> wrote:
>> $ ulimit -m 100000 bash: ulimit: max memory size: cannot modify
>> limit: Function not implemented
Andrew> I don't know about this. The change could cause existing
Andrew> applications and scripts to fail. Sure, we'll do that
Andrew> sometimes but this doesn't seem important enough.
What's more, there have been (and still are) out-of-tree patches to
enforce rlimit-RSS in various ways. There just hasn't been consensus
yet on the best implementation.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-27 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-27 10:17 stone_wang
2005-02-27 10:31 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-27 23:56 ` Peter Chubb [this message]
2005-02-27 17:21 ` Rik van Riel
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