From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 4 12:37:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9CE61553B for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA16013; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:37:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991004153611.010a93a0@staff.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@staff.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 15:36:11 -0400 To: Matthew Dillon From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ... Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199910041934.MAA68497@apollo.backplane.com> References: <3.0.5.32.19991004152203.00f11370@staff.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:34 PM 10/4/99 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >:Speaking of mmap, was this DoS every fixed/ commited to stable ? >: >:With >:slag3% limit -h >:cputime unlimited >:filesize 32768 kbytes > > No. There is no limit on how much memory can be allocated via mmap(). > > There will soon be a resource limit to help determine which process(es) > to kill when a machine runs out of swap, and someone was working on a > per-user (rather then per-process) overall memory use resource-limit, but > neither yet exists . Thanks for the response. Do you imagine that this would be integrated into stable, or would this be a 4.x branch change only. ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel 01.519.651.3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message