Re: Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 19:01 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > yes the behavior is like this
> > 
> >                  root                non-root
> > before        about half of ram      nothing
> > after         all of ram             by default small, increasable
> > [...]
> > What application do you have in mind that broke by this relaxing of
> > rules?
> 
> This is not something I'd like to disclose here yet.
> 
> It is an application that calls mlockall(MCL_CURRENT|MCL_FUTURE) and
> apparently copes with mlockall() returning EPERM 

hmm... curious that mlockall() succeeds with only a 32kb rlimit....



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