> What I have problem understanding is the last sentence of this > paragraph in the light of your claim that it will results in > swapping especially when we consider developers' machines with > 512MB/1GB RAM, i.e. machines where memory is not "tight".
Sigh, Linux works the same way. Processes can exceed their HARD ulimit if there happens to be memory available, making RLIMIT_RSS basically useless. Grrr.