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On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Ilmari Karonen 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?
I guess this would effectively disable all those memory-eating interwiki bots ;)
Marco