diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 7c595bd65..4115ecb25 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2566,9 +2566,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rlimit"
-version = "0.8.1"
+version = "0.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0fbcc6f9672090a4060a6de8d0fb2d4acd381363cda5b7049a26e2b32464f8ad"
+checksum = "347703a5ae47adf1e693144157be231dde38c72bd485925cae7407ad3e52480b"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
diff --git a/crates/arti-testing/Cargo.toml b/crates/arti-testing/Cargo.toml
index f6cb5288e..6129e7b8a 100644
--- a/crates/arti-testing/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/arti-testing/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ tracing = "0.1.18"
 notify = "4.0"
 pin-project = "1"
 rand = "0.8"
-rlimit = "0.8.0"
+rlimit = "0.7"
 serde = { version = "1.0.103", features = ["derive"] }
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.0", features = ["env-filter"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.7", features = ["signal", "macros"] }
diff --git a/crates/arti/Cargo.toml b/crates/arti/Cargo.toml
index a69f00689..87455e0c6 100644
--- a/crates/arti/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/arti/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ futures = "0.3.14"
 tracing = "0.1.18"
 notify = "4.0"
 once_cell = { version = "1", optional = true }
-rlimit = "0.8.0"
+rlimit = "0.7"
 serde = { version = "1.0.103", features = ["derive"] }
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.0", features = ["env-filter"] }
 tokio-crate = { package = "tokio", version = "1.7", optional = true, features = ["signal"] }