Re: RLIMIT_AS maximum is 2GB
Jan Edler (edler@research.nj.nec.com)
Wed, 3 Mar 1999 00:21:08 -0500
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 01:02:42PM +0800, David Luyer wrote:
> > 1) Am I missing something?
>
> Yes - if you're going to give someone more than 2GB, you probably just
> want to give them 'unlimited'. Sure, you can't do clear limits between
> 2GB and 4GB (or whatever your total limit on address space is) but it
> really won't make that much difference if you let some process squash 3GB
> of your memory or just give it free reign.
Ah, yes, but there is no explicit RLIM_INFINITY checking,
so it just looks like plain 0x7fffffff, which is 2GB-1.
So you're saying we could patch the code to check for this.
I suppose that is a reasonable approach.
Jan Edler
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