On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:02:53 +0200 Michael van Elst <mlel...@serpens.de> wrote:
> The UVM limit is global to all processes, obviously there should > be such a limit to keep the system provided with unlocked pages. > > You could probably make this configurable, but so far nobody had > the need to lock a large part of memory and to adjust that limit. Well I accept that you need some unlocked pages to keep things running, however hardcoding the limit to 1/3 is a bit extreme. I thought this was the whole point of sysctl/rlimit settings, i.e. I'm running as root, I know what I'm doing, if I want to lock 95% of physical memory, then let me do it. Anyway, thanks for demystifying the issue.
