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"Andrew" == Andrew Morton [off-list ref] writes:

Andrew> [off-list ref] wrote:

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 $ ulimit -m 100000 bash: ulimit: max memory size: cannot modify
limit: Function not implemented

Andrew> I don't know about this.  The change could cause existing
Andrew> applications and scripts to fail.  Sure, we'll do that
Andrew> sometimes but this doesn't seem important enough. 

What's more, there have been (and still are) out-of-tree patches to
enforce rlimit-RSS in various ways.  There just hasn't been consensus
yet on the best implementation.

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