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

From: Peter Chubb (peterc_at_gelato.unsw.edu.au)
Date: 02/28/05

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    Date:	Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:56:08 +1100
    To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    
    

    >>>>> "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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