On Mon Oct 25, 2021 at 5:42 PM CEST, Vito Caputo wrote: > If not for the gpg precedent cited, I'd say it's obviously > distribution-specific defaults choice territory when it's as simple as > what's preset in /etc/security/limits.conf. > > Systemd has also been getting its hands a bit dirty in the area of > bumping resource limits, which I'm not sure how I feel about. But it > does illustrate how downstream is perfectly capable of managing these > limits on behalf of users. Most distros don't touch this default value as far as I'm aware, and the buck, as it were, stops with the kernel. I would prefer to bikeshed this once rather than N times where N is the number of Linux distributions. Accordingly, should any of the distros prefer the original value, or another value, they're entirely able to configure new defaults according to their preferences.
