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On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Blaisorblade wrote:

> And the RLIMIT_RSS is totally unused - I bet Rik's patch didn't manage 
> to go in, or it's me missing something?

It never went into the kernel, because Andrew did not find
a workload where the code provided benefits.  Sounds fair
to me ;)

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