Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK? | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:15:40 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 10:08 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > the situation is messy; I can see some value in the hack Ted proposed to > > just bump the rlimit automatically at an mlockall-done-by-root.. but to > > be fair it's a hack :( > > As all other rlimits are honored even if you are root, it looks not orthogonal > to disregard an existing RLIMIT_MEMLOCK rlimit if you are root.
that's another solution; give root a higher rlimit by default for this. It's also a bit messy, but a not-unreasonable default behavior.
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