[openib-general] Question about locked pages

Roland Dreier rolandd at cisco.com
Mon Oct 31 11:58:49 PST 2005


    Jeff> Ditto (I thought those were shmem values / didn't think they
    Jeff> had any effect on Open IB).  The information that I got was
    Jeff> third-hand, which is why I posted here to ask about it.  :-)

    Jeff> I'll remove them from the FAQ entry -- any other comments?

Well, a normal user can't use "ulimit -l" to increase their limit on
locked memory.  However I've never really looked into what the
cleanest way to increase the limit is.  /etc/security/limits.conf is
part of the answer, but ssh+privilege separation can cause that to
break as well.

 - R.



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