Re:Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.6.11-rc5: kernel/sys.c setrlimit() RLIMIT_RSS cleanup

Re:Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.6.11-rc5: kernel/sys.c setrlimit() RLIMIT_RSS cleanup

[stone_wang]

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

> 
> <stone_wang@sohu.com> 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.

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