On 11/16/11 09:25, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > prlimit --stack=1000 --memlock=100000 --rss=1000 sort -u /dev/zero > > Well, mostly (4/5 times) sort got correctly "Killed", > but a segfault smells.
Sorry, I don't have prlimit and don't know what it does. Can you reproduce the problem with a standard shell and ulimit? Or failing that, can you give a backtrace?