[Reply to all, not just to me] On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 22:55 +0200, Fernando Santagata wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 05:23:26PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > > > On Sun, 2017-04-09 at 12:09 +0200, Fernando Santagata wrote: > > > I think this is related to this thread in the linux-mm mailing list, dating > > > back to kernel version 4.7, the first one that exibits this behavior: > > > > > > https://lists.gt.net/linux/kernel/2528084 > > > > > > This error shows even when using concurrent programming under Perl6, so it > > > seems to be really related to sharing memory. > > > > > > The last usable kernel in this respect is version 4.6. > > > > The warning message tells you how to work around this (add kernel > > parameter 'ignore_rlimit_data'). Doesn't that work? > > I only tried fiddling with ulimit, but ignore_rlimit_data works fine. > > I suggest adding either a warning in some doc file, or making that > option the default, lest you receive dozens of stupid bug reports :-) I certainly don't want to disable a resource limit globally - the failure to apply the data size limit was itself a bug. And I hope that it is not very common to set data size limits that are too low, so we don't have to document yet another change in the release notes that will mostly be ignored. Can you please check whether the data limit is already set in a shell (ulimit -d)? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up.
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