Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 22:30:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Max data segment size Message-ID: <199605102030.WAA25232@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605101222.FAA04291@Root.COM> from David Greenman at "May 10, 96 05:22:21 am"
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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. ;-)
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