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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:56:08 +1100
From: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.6.11-rc5: kernel/sys.c setrlimit() RLIMIT_RSS cleanup
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>>>>> "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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Dr Peter Chubb  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au  peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au
The technical we do immediately,  the political takes *forever*
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