Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759064AbZAWTgm (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:36:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757080AbZAWTga (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:36:30 -0500 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([64.71.152.41]:43428 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757314AbZAWTga (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:36:30 -0500 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:36:28 -0800 (PST) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com To: Bastien ROUCARIES cc: Greg KH , Bron Gondwana , Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable@kernel.org, Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , "Theodore Ts'o" , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber Subject: Re: [patch 016/104] epoll: introduce resource usage limits In-Reply-To: <195c7a900901230924n13ed225dq4aeff8015d22588e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20081203193901.715896543@mini.kroah.org> <20081203194849.GQ8950@kroah.com> <1232686261.9977.1296303473@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20090123051620.GA8122@suse.de> <1232704065.25510.1296328851@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20090123170631.GB11566@suse.de> <195c7a900901230924n13ed225dq4aeff8015d22588e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) X-GPG-FINGRPRINT: CFAE 5BEE FD36 F65E E640 56FE 0974 BF23 270F 474E X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http://www.xmailserver.org/davidel.asc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 570 Lines: 17 On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Why not using a ulimit for this kind of stuff ? `ulimit` would be great, but it requires userspace code changes for every value we want to export. And looking at the amount of configuration we have in /proc, it's clear `ulimit` exposure is not very practical. - Davide -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/