[ale] Problems w/ users under CentOS 5.3 ....

[JK]

William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

> For posterity: Yes, the touch *must* be /.autorelabel, 
> /home/.autorelabel *doesn't* work. The login problem here turned out to 
> be that we were trying to setup user processes w/ too much stack-space, 
> which was causing the login shell to fail, eventually screwing 
> everything else up. We had put our own custom initialization file in 
> /etc/profile.d/ & had a line in there that said:
> 
> limit stackspace 512m


Gah, why in the world would you need such a gigantonorminous stack?
1m is probably more than enough for almost any competently-written
code.

I suspect the root of the problem may lie in the kernel's VM overcommit
settings.

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting

-- JK