Yes, we want this.  We also need to modify memlock in the same way.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:36 PM, David Birdsong <[email protected]>wrote:

> I've been meaning to ping the list about this for months.
>
> Since supervisord is a process manager that often runs as root, I see
> no reason to not task it with process setup for various rlimits.
> - num procs..thread hungry java processes need this
> - num files..any server needs raised file descriptor limits
> - stack size ...we use this for super threaded mongod to cut down on
> memory usage
> - others?
>
> Instead of relying on /etc/security/limits.d or limits.conf and an
> interactive pam session to enact those on a per-user basis, I want the
> server I'm starting that requires root privs to know how and what it
> should set it to. nginx and haproxy both do this well.
>
> Supervisord running as root, which it often is, is well positioned to
> parse the program specific values, upon fork but before the exec,
> calling setrlimit to set up the correct 'space' for the program to run
> inside of. Since we needed this so badly, I patched our supervisord to
> allow a program to specify:
> minfds=
> minprocs=
> stacksize=
>
> It's worked well, but the patch is a grotesque copy and paste of code
> borrowed from the supervisord parent process and config setup. We
> can't live without it at this point, so we continue to patch on
> updated versions of supervisord which is a royal PITA.
>
> Does anybody else need or want this?
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