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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
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> I wonder if we could pull some "sane" values out of our arses and have
> it work just fine.

That approach may work, but it's pretty nasty.

But together with at least some way for the distro to set the values
we pick, it would probably be fairly reasonable.

You're right that most of the rlimits are just not very useful.

           Linus