From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4365289.1109502351571.JavaMail.postfix@mx20.mail.sohu.com> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:05:51 +0800 (CST) From: Subject: Re:Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.6.11-rc5: kernel/sys.c setrlimit() RLIMIT_RSS cleanup Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton , riel@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I have a buddy who encountered the "ulimit" confusion, when he and his team deployed Linux as the platform for a multi-user online programming test competition system. And generally, i think the kernel/system shall work as it said(return of syscalls/output of commands) :) But rss limit might be a historical issue, with already many applications depending on it :( Stone Wang ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Morton To: stone_wang@sohu.com Cc: 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 Sent: Sun Feb 27 18:31:36 CST 2005 > > wrote: > > > > $ ulimit -m 100000 > > bash: ulimit: max memory size: cannot modify limit: Function not implemented > > I don't know about this. The change could cause existing applications and > scripts to fail. Sure, we'll do that sometimes but this doesn't seem > important enough. -- 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