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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2023-02-26 19:18:04 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>2023-02-26 19:18:04 +0000
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Add warning to the doc; also set soft limits
Signed-off-by: Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>
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@@ -334,7 +334,10 @@ means open fds limit. Note that unlike s6-softlimit, which only sets
<em>soft limits</em>, i.e. process hierarchy-wide limits, the values
given here declare <em>hard limits</em> that will be enforced for the
whole system to be booted: it will be impossible to raise soft limits
-above these values. </li> <br />
+above these values. <strong>Warning:</strong> misuse of this option is
+likely to make your system unbootable; make sure you don't prevent
+process 1 and the whole process hierarchy from allocating enough
+resources. </li> <br />
<li> <tt>-C</tt>&nbsp;: create a set of scripts that is suitable
for running <em>in a container</em>. This modifies some behaviours: