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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:45:51 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>, Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: 2.6.9 kernel oops with openais
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* Steven Dake (sdake@mvista.com) wrote:
> The use case is this (on 2.6.9):
> 
> task starts as uid 0
> task calls mlockall
> task allocates several mb of ram
> task drops root privs to non prived uid
> further memory allocations fail

What's the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK?

thanks,
-chris
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