From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20F=C3=A4rber?= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:53:49 +0100 Subject: Raise soft address space limit to hard limit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit For SLES we want users to be able to use large memory configurations with KVM without fiddling with ulimit -Sv. Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber [BR: add include for sys/resource.h] Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers --- vl.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c index a5ae5f23d2..3882df6ebe 100644 --- a/vl.c +++ b/vl.c @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ #include "qemu/cutils.h" #include "qemu/help_option.h" #include "qemu/uuid.h" +#include #include "sysemu/seccomp.h" #ifdef CONFIG_SDL @@ -3014,6 +3015,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) } BlockdevOptions_queue; QSIMPLEQ_HEAD(, BlockdevOptions_queue) bdo_queue = QSIMPLEQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER(bdo_queue); + struct rlimit rlimit_as; module_call_init(MODULE_INIT_TRACE); @@ -3022,6 +3024,16 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) qemu_mutex_lock_iothread(); + /* + * Try to raise the soft address space limit. + * Default on SLES 11 SP2 is 80% of physical+swap memory. + */ + getrlimit(RLIMIT_AS, &rlimit_as); + if (rlimit_as.rlim_cur < rlimit_as.rlim_max) { + rlimit_as.rlim_cur = rlimit_as.rlim_max; + setrlimit(RLIMIT_AS, &rlimit_as); + } + atexit(qemu_run_exit_notifiers); error_set_progname(argv[0]); qemu_init_exec_dir(argv[0]);