On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> yes the behavior is like this
>
> root non-root
> before about half of ram nothing
> after all of ram by default small, increasable
> [...]
> What application do you have in mind that broke by this relaxing of
> rules?
This is not something I'd like to disclose here yet.
It is an application that calls mlockall(MCL_CURRENT|MCL_FUTURE) and
apparently copes with mlockall() returning EPERM (or doesn't even try
it) but can apparently NOT cope with valign() tripping over mmap() ==
-1/EAGAIN.
The relevant people are Bcc:d.
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Matthias Andree
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