Re: Is IORING_REGISTER_BUFFERS useful given the current default RLIMIT_MLOCK?

["Drew DeVault" <sir@cmpwn.com>]

On Mon Oct 25, 2021 at 5:42 PM CEST, Vito Caputo wrote:
> If not for the gpg precedent cited, I'd say it's obviously
> distribution-specific defaults choice territory when it's as simple as
> what's preset in /etc/security/limits.conf.
>
> Systemd has also been getting its hands a bit dirty in the area of
> bumping resource limits, which I'm not sure how I feel about. But it
> does illustrate how downstream is perfectly capable of managing these
> limits on behalf of users.

Most distros don't touch this default value as far as I'm aware, and the
buck, as it were, stops with the kernel. I would prefer to bikeshed this
once rather than N times where N is the number of Linux distributions.

Accordingly, should any of the distros prefer the original value, or
another value, they're entirely able to configure new defaults according
to their preferences.