Configuring limits globally

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 11:43:34AM +0000, James Hunt wrote:
> On 08/11/11 10:51, Lukáš Nykrýn wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I want to ask if this patch
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/282854 was considered for
> > inclusion or if there are some issues that needs to be worked on.
> > This was possible in SysVinit so I think it is very unpleasant that
> > Upstart does not provide possibility to change limits globally.

> This would be a useful idea. However, there is quite a lot of work still
> to do to have the patch accepted.  See my comments:

> https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/282854/comments/2

As far as I can see, there isn't even a patch that's been proposed yet?

FWIW, a workaround for this would be to set global limits in the initramfs
(or via a diversion of /sbin/init) before calling upstart.  Not pretty, but
would do the job, while we don't have a patch.

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