The full thread is here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/5/227
It seems it was never finished. Perhaps there were additional discussions. I think limits.conf certainly needs a patch, though I'm unsure what to do about the shells "ulimit" commands. Regardless, it seems that the manpage should perhaps be strengthened to point out that in almost all situations, virtual memory is the thing you want to limit. The data limits (which I didn't test) aren't actually effective if they do work the way they're documented: glibc will use mmap for large heap allocations, so data limits are just brk() limits, which isn't too useful. -- ulimit / pam limits don't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/71024 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
