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Date:      Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:35:51 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Anthony Schneider <aschneid@mail.slc.edu>
Cc:        Mike Makonnen <mike_makonnen@yahoo.com>, Gaspar Chilingarov <nm@web.am>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fork rate limit
Message-ID:  <20020204233550.GE88948@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020204181724.B1633@mail.slc.edu>
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In the last episode (Feb 04), Anthony Schneider said:
> I've actually wanted something like this for a while and have considered
> coding it myself.  Perhaps this could go into a login.conf variable
> (which I would have to create myself), but originally my plan was basically
> kill off parent processes with the uid of the user who is fork()'ing too
> often (200 per 10 seconds sounds good) simply hard-coded.

Killing off parent procs could really upset a regular user who is
running ./configure, which could easily spawn a couple undred processes
in 10 seconds.  Maybe simply delay the fork() until the rate drops?

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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