Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:49:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9909211647550.16568-100000@luna> In-Reply-To: <000001bf048b$6a01eea0$021d85d1@youwant.to>
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Obviously not from the default settings. Typically limits are in place to protect something from something. This, however, may be an exception. -Kip On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > > Thanks. Although having maxfiles == maxfilesperproc might make sense for > > special cases e.g. a machine completely dedicated to one process -- It is > > dangerous at best for the general case. Any malicious program can make a > > machine running FreeBSD non-functional. The default should be set with the > > average user in mind, namely protecting him from himself. > > > > > > -Kip > > These settings have nothing to do with protecting anything from anything > else. That's not what they're for. So your argument is interesting but > irrelevant. > > DS > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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