diff --git a/lib/dev/build_container.rb b/lib/dev/build_container.rb
index c099714..d6f344a 100644
--- a/lib/dev/build_container.rb
+++ b/lib/dev/build_container.rb
@@ -44,6 +44,20 @@ class LocalMountsUnsupportedError < RuntimeError; end
     CONTENT_FILES = ["Dockerfile", ".dockerignore", "deps.lock", "build-deps.lock"].freeze
     TAG_PREFIX = "content-"
 
+    # Rosetta-for-Linux forwards cross-thread signals through rt_tgsigqueueinfo
+    # and aborts the whole process when the kernel answers EAGAIN ("rosetta
+    # error: rt_tgsigqueueinfo failed in pend_signal: 11") — no backoff, because
+    # retrying inside its own signal-forwarding path risks deadlock. The queue
+    # fills because .NET GC suspensions across UBT/UHT's hundreds of threads
+    # each become a queued signal under emulation, and RLIMIT_SIGPENDING is one
+    # per-UID bucket shared by every build process (RAM-scaled default, ~96k on
+    # a 24GB VM). The bursts are transient — the queue drains in milliseconds
+    # once a suspension completes — so a wide bucket absorbs them. The limit is
+    # a cap, not a reservation: ~80 bytes of kernel memory per actually-queued
+    # signal, worst case ~80MB, nothing at rest. Applied to every build/prewarm
+    # run; harmless on native hosts.
+    SIGPENDING_ULIMIT = ["--ulimit", "sigpending=1000000"].freeze
+
     # @return [Dev::ContainerEngine] the engine every docker invocation rides
     sig { returns(Dev::ContainerEngine) }
     attr_reader :engine
@@ -393,6 +407,7 @@ def docker_run_command(image_tag, project_root:, shell_cmd:, volumes: [], env: {
 
       [
         *@engine.argv_prefix, "run", "--rm",
+        *SIGPENDING_ULIMIT,
         "-v", "#{project_root}:/project",
         *volume_flags(volumes),
         *env_flags,
@@ -510,6 +525,7 @@ def prewarm_commit!(base_tag, final_tag, volumes:, prewarm:, secrets:)
 
       run_argv = [
         *@engine.argv_prefix, "run", "--name", container,
+        *SIGPENDING_ULIMIT,
         *volume_flags(volumes),
         *secret_mounts,
         base_tag,
diff --git a/test/dev/build_container_test.rb b/test/dev/build_container_test.rb
index 7bb9a4c..8d48122 100644
--- a/test/dev/build_container_test.rb
+++ b/test/dev/build_container_test.rb
@@ -113,6 +113,19 @@ def build_container(engine: FakeContainerEngine.new)
     cmd.last(3) == ["sh", "-c", "./bin/build.sh"]
   end
 
+  test "docker_run_command widens the pending-signal ulimit (Rosetta pend_signal aborts)" do
+    When "building a docker run command"
+    cmd = build_container.docker_run_command(
+      "jpduchesne89/snappy:content-abc123",
+      project_root: Pathname("/project"),
+      shell_cmd: "./bin/build.sh",
+    )
+
+    Then "the run carries the widened sigpending bucket"
+    cmd.include?("sigpending=1000000")
+    cmd[cmd.index("sigpending=1000000") - 1] == "--ulimit"
+  end
+
   test "docker_run_command renders extra volume mounts" do
     When "building a docker run command with volumes"
     cmd = build_container.docker_run_command(
@@ -1034,6 +1047,7 @@ def build_container(engine: FakeContainerEngine.new)
     1 * bc.prewarm_container_name >> "dev-prewarm-test"
     1 * bc.write_secret_files({ "WWISE_TOKEN" => "tok" }) >> { "WWISE_TOKEN" => "/tmp/dev-secret-xyz" }
     1 * bc.run_watched(["docker", "run", "--name", "dev-prewarm-test",
+      "--ulimit", "sigpending=1000000",
       "-v", "/engines/ue:/ue",
       "-v", "/tmp/dev-secret-xyz:/run/secrets/WWISE_TOKEN:ro",
       "img:tag-base", "sh", "-c", "bash /work/bin/prewarm.sh"], container: "dev-prewarm-test") >> true
@@ -1053,6 +1067,7 @@ def build_container(engine: FakeContainerEngine.new)
     1 * bc.prewarm_container_name >> "dev-prewarm-test"
     1 * bc.write_secret_files({}) >> {}
     1 * bc.run_watched(["docker", "run", "--name", "dev-prewarm-test",
+      "--ulimit", "sigpending=1000000",
       "img:tag-base", "sh", "-c", "false"], container: "dev-prewarm-test") >> false
     engine.runs == [["rm", "-f", "dev-prewarm-test"]]
   end