Re: 2.6.9 kernel oops with openais

[Chris Wright]

* Steven Dake (sdake@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> The change was that from 2.6.8 to 2.6.9 the rlimit for memlock was
> changed from infinity to 32k (and at the same time, normal users are now
> allowed to use mlockall if they dont have alot of memory to mlock).  I
> fixed up the openais code by doing something evil from uid 0 like:
> 
>        struct rlimit rlimit;
> 
>         rlimit.rlim_cur = RLIM_INFINITY;
>         rlimit.rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY;
>         setrlimit (RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, &rlimit);

Yeah, that'll do it (although, certainly wouldn't hurt to size it
down ;-).  Hopefully most users aren't dropping uid (I doubt it, since
I hadn't seen this problem pop up before).

thanks,
-chris
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