diff --git a/rootdir/init.rc b/rootdir/init.rc
index 323d9cb..49841ed 100644
--- a/rootdir/init.rc
+++ b/rootdir/init.rc
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@
     # Allow up to 32K FDs per process
     setrlimit nofile 32768 32768
 
+    # set RLIMIT_MEMLOCK to 64KB
+    setrlimit memlock 65536 65536
+
     # Set up linker config subdirectories based on mount namespaces
     mkdir /linkerconfig/bootstrap 0755
     mkdir /linkerconfig/default 0755