[Toolserver-l] rebooted nightshade

Marco Schuster marco at harddisk.is-a-geek.org
Sun Feb 1 08:59:36 UTC 2009


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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
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