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Subject: The best way to protect against starvation?
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Hello,

If an ordinary user runs:

-- snip --
cat > starv.c <<EOF
main(){  char *point; while(1) { point = ( char * ) malloc(10000); }}
EOF
cc starv.c
while true
do
./a.out &
done
-- snip --

This will fast starv the operating system (FreeBSD 6.2). I have tried to 
limit the number of processes and the amount of memmory consumed (in 
login.conf).

There is also a file /etc/malloc.conf - but I don't understand if this
could help? Any advice?

-- 
Göran Hasse

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