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Mikhail Kuzminsky kus at free.net
Fri Apr 18 10:17:05 PDT 2008


In message from stephen mulcahy <smulcahy at aplpi.com> (Wed, 16 Apr 2008 
16:11:58 +0100):
> ...
>If you're committed to rolling your own distro and joining the likes 
>of those listed at http://lwn.net/Distributions/ then I'd recommend 
>Debian as a good starting point.
>
>But I'd echo Jakob's comments - I don't see much value in building a 
>"cluster distribution". 
...
>-stephen

BTW, the question is: which Linux distributions have binary kernels 
compiled w/increased RLIMIT_MEMLOCK value ?

It's necessary for work with Infiniband/OFED environment. And AFAIK 
it's therefore necessary (for increase of this value) to recompile the 
kernel: increasing of the corresponding value in 
/etc/security/limits.conf can't help. 

But (liked by me) OpenSuSE distros, for example, have 
RLIMIT_MEMLOCK=32 only (although I didn't check versions after 10.1).

Mikhail Kuzminsky
Computer Assistance to Chemical Research Center
Zelinsky Inst. of Organic Chemistry
Moscow   



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