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Date:      Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:06:12 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Coleman Kane <cokane@cokane.org>
Cc:        mezz7@cox.net, imp@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: mlock(2), unprivileged users, and RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
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On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 22:16 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:

> It turns out that in order to use some commands (such as ps, w, top, and
> others), you'll need a memorylocked limit even higher. I have mine at
> around 250 right now and so far it seems to be fine. If you don't do
> this, then these programs will spin in an infinite loop attempting to
> allocate some memory (which the system refuses).

Yeah, as I said, quite a few sysctl handlers user vslock() which wires
memory. Some of the bigger ones are the new procstat sysctls.  I wonder
how gnome-system-monitor and procstat work with a limited
RLIMIT_MEMLOCK.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome@FreeBSD.org
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