Any updates? I can confirm this as well.
Interestingly, other limits work; for example "ulimit -v" is enforced though it's not that useful. Will this get fixed? IMO, the rss limit is tremendously useful for killing processes that balloon out of control. VLC as of late will balloon out of control when playing many fake movies that can be found online. This is so important that I ended up writing my own Python script (running with SCHED_RR, priority 99) that will retrieve ballooning processes using "ps" and then proceed to kill them if their rss exceeds a certain amount. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/701141 Title: rss ulimit does not apply -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
