Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get rlimits of any process(update)

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Aug 18 2005 - 12:24:46 EST


> Also some documention for specific services show that there is a need to
> adjust rlimits per process at runtime, e.g.:
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.4
> http://slacksite.com/apache/logging.html
> http://staff.in2.hr/denis/oracle/10g1install_fedora3_en.html#n2

Perhaps those application authors should provide a management interface
to do so within the soft limit range at least. Its not clear to me that
growing the fd array on a process is even safe. Some programs do size
arrays at startup after querying the rlimit data.

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