Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 2021 11:47:27 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Increase default MLOCK_LIMIT to 8 MiB |
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 07:32:33 +0100 "Drew DeVault" <sir@cmpwn.com> wrote:
> > And a question: rather than messing around with a constant which will > > need to be increased again in a couple of years, can we solve this one > > and for all? For example, permit root to set the system-wide > > per-process max mlock size and depend upon initscripts to do this > > appropriately. > > Not sure I understand. Root and init scripts can already manage this > number - the goal of this patch is just to provide a saner default.
Well, why change the default? Surely anyone who cares is altering it at runtime anyway. And if they are not, we should encourage them to do so?
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