Bug 253952

Summary: setrlimit man page is incorrect, leads user to believe that rss can be set
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Wade Mealing <wmealing>
Component: man-pagesAssignee: Ivana Varekova <varekova>
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Version: 4.0CC: jplans, tao
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2008-0111 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Wade Mealing 2007-08-23 05:39:54 UTC 
Description of problem:

 man(2) pages of getrlimit()/setrlimit() says that the kernel supports
RLIMIT_RSS. But the RHEL5 kernel does not support setting/limiting RSS memory


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


man-pages-1.67-14.el4.src.rpm

How reproducible:

Every time:

This is a follow on bug see BZ: 220657
Comment 1 Wade Mealing 2007-08-23 05:40:42 UTC 
Created attachment 166906 [details]
Patch to fix man page
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2008-02-13 21:20:10 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0111.html