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    SubjectRe: Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK?
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    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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