From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16930.24088.251669.488622@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:56:08 +1100 From: Peter Chubb Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.6.11-rc5: kernel/sys.c setrlimit() RLIMIT_RSS cleanup In-Reply-To: <20050227023136.0d1528a7.akpm@osdl.org> References: <17855236.1109499454066.JavaMail.postfix@mx20.mail.sohu.com> <20050227023136.0d1528a7.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: stone_wang@sohu.com, riel@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton writes: Andrew> 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. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au The technical we do immediately, the political takes *forever* -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org