On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 02:07:33PM -0700, Kamal Prasad wrote:
> the documentation indicates that this is a per-process
> limit. but on netbsd-current(not that Ive verified
> over ther flavors of unix), it seems to be a
> system-wide limit.
> ie if proc.curproc.rlimit.memorylocked.soft=100MB,
> then the sum of all processes that could do an mlock
> [over memory allocated using
> mmap(0,len,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_ANON|MAP_PRIVATE,-1,0)]
>  will be < 100MB.
> is this functionality correct?

No, it's really 100MB per process. I don't think there is a system-wide
limit.

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