From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 10 13:40:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA22018 for current-outgoing; Fri, 10 May 1996 13:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA22011 for ; Fri, 10 May 1996 13:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA17300 for ; Fri, 10 May 1996 22:39:53 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA04761 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 10 May 1996 22:39:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA25232 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 10 May 1996 22:30:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605102030.WAA25232@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Max data segment size To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 22:30:50 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605101222.FAA04291@Root.COM> from David Greenman at "May 10, 96 05:22:21 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Greenman wrote: > There isn't any problem with increasing these limits as long as > you realize that it will allow users to more easily spam the system > by consuming all of the swapspace. They could probably do this, > anyway, however. There's already the concept of rlimits for this. Hopefully, we will come up with a clone of BSD/OS' user classes some day. > ...anyway, there isn't any problem with page tables or anything like that. Hmm, not even more wasted memory that could stomp one someone's toes when running in 2 MB :) RAM only? In this case, i'd vote for bumping the default hard limits. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)