See also PR#55763 -- root has a soft limit of 1024 ulimit -u on RHEL6.
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > Behavior seems to be that after the setuid, we don't get the new users > limits -- we just get a one-time check to make sure our currently > single-thread process won't push us over the new users' limit. > Confirmed in /proc/$pid/limits on a child in start_threads() that > roots limit is in place. > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I was looking at a typical apr_thread_create failure for creating a >> large # of threads on a system, and the only solution was to increase >> roots RLIMIT_NPROC as opposed to the (httpd.conf configured) "User" >> limits >> >> But every manpage I read says that after the setuid(), we should have >> the new users limits, which means only tuning those limits should be >> necessary. >> >> Can anyone explain/translate/debunk? >> >> I'm doing a single child with 1100 threads. I toggle root/nobody >> having 1000/1200 available maxuprocs on an idle system. It works when >> root has 1200 and nobody has 1000, and not the other way around. >> >> -- >> Eric Covener >> cove...@gmail.com > > > > -- > Eric Covener > cove...@gmail.com -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com
