diff --git a/doc/management.txt b/doc/management.txt
index 98d14b9e09..893226ef71 100644
--- a/doc/management.txt
+++ b/doc/management.txt
@@ -416,13 +416,15 @@ list of options is :
     level and verbosity can be optionally specified on each element using ':' as
     inner separator with trace name.
 
-  -m <limit> : limit the total allocatable memory to <limit> megabytes across
-    all processes. This may cause some connection refusals or some slowdowns
-    depending on the amount of memory needed for normal operations. This is
-    mostly used to force the processes to work in a constrained resource usage
-    scenario. It is important to note that the memory is not shared between
-    processes, so in a multi-process scenario, this value is first divided by
-    global.nbproc before forking.
+  -m <limit> : limit allocatable memory, which is used to keep process's data,
+    to <limit> megabytes. This may cause some connection refusals or some
+    slowdowns depending on the amount of memory needed for normal operations.
+    This is mostly used to force haproxy process to work in a constrained
+    resource consumption scenario. It is important to note that the memory is
+    not shared between haproxy processes and a child process created via fork()
+    system call inherits its parent's resource limits. So, in a master-worker
+    mode this memory limit is separately applied to the master and its forked
+    worker process.
 
   -n <limit> : limits the per-process connection limit to <limit>. This is
     equivalent to the global section's keyword "maxconn". It has precedence
diff --git a/src/debug.c b/src/debug.c
index b190f70093..5f21f02711 100644
--- a/src/debug.c
+++ b/src/debug.c
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ struct post_mortem {
 		uid_t boot_uid;
 		gid_t boot_gid;
 		struct rlimit limit_fd;  // RLIMIT_NOFILE
-		struct rlimit limit_ram; // RLIMIT_AS or RLIMIT_DATA
+		struct rlimit limit_ram; // RLIMIT_DATA
 
 #if defined(USE_THREAD)
 		struct {
@@ -2273,11 +2273,7 @@ static int feed_post_mortem()
 	post_mortem.process.boot_gid = getegid();
 
 	getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &post_mortem.process.limit_fd);
-#if defined(RLIMIT_AS)
-	getrlimit(RLIMIT_AS, &post_mortem.process.limit_ram);
-#elif defined(RLIMIT_DATA)
 	getrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, &post_mortem.process.limit_ram);
-#endif
 
 	if (strcmp(post_mortem.platform.utsname.sysname, "Linux") == 0)
 		feed_post_mortem_linux();
diff --git a/src/haproxy.c b/src/haproxy.c
index be8b587cc9..79059b97a1 100644
--- a/src/haproxy.c
+++ b/src/haproxy.c
@@ -3462,18 +3462,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	if (global.rlimit_memmax) {
 		limit.rlim_cur = limit.rlim_max =
 			global.rlimit_memmax * 1048576ULL;
-#ifdef RLIMIT_AS
-		if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_AS, &limit) == -1) {
-			if (global.tune.options & GTUNE_STRICT_LIMITS) {
-				ha_alert("[%s.main()] Cannot fix MEM limit to %d megs.\n",
-					 argv[0], global.rlimit_memmax);
-				exit(1);
-			}
-			else
-				ha_warning("[%s.main()] Cannot fix MEM limit to %d megs.\n",
-					   argv[0], global.rlimit_memmax);
-		}
-#else
 		if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, &limit) == -1) {
 			if (global.tune.options & GTUNE_STRICT_LIMITS) {
 				ha_alert("[%s.main()] Cannot fix MEM limit to %d megs.\n",
@@ -3484,7 +3472,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 				ha_warning("[%s.main()] Cannot fix MEM limit to %d megs.\n",
 					   argv[0], global.rlimit_memmax);
 		}
-#endif
 	}
 
 #if defined(USE_LINUX_CAP)