[Openais] Re: 2.6.9 kernel oops with openais
Chris Wright
chrisw at osdl.org
Fri Oct 29 17:01:29 PDT 2004
* Steven Dake (sdake at mvista.com) 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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