On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Ilmari Karonen
<nospam(a)vyznev.net> wrote:
Come to think of it, shouldn't the toolserver
have some resource use
limits that would stop things like this from happening? A single
non-root user running a fork bomb or anything similar really shouldn't
be able to bring down the entire server.
Maybe set ulimit -m to a gigabyte or something?
And limit the number of processes a user can run. while (1) { fork();
} is gonna run you out of pids rather than memory.
Bryan