Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 22:29:20 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: ylo@cs.hut.fi (Tatu Ylonen) Cc: petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de, FreeBSD-gnats@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/971: Default limits for number of processes per user ridiculously low Message-ID: <199601262129.WAA20112@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199601260849.KAA00602@trance.olari.clinet.fi> from "Tatu Ylonen" at Jan 26, 96 10:49:41 am
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As Tatu Ylonen wrote: > > The point I am trying to make is that 40 is too low as the default > limit. ...or even too high, depending on your point of view. For example, on a 4 MB 386/25, even the famous fork game: #!/bin/sh $0 & $0 is likely to cause the machine to run into death. I've been planning to make the default dynamic, depending on the memory size and CPU type, but it's not as easy as it sounds. In case you are interested, poke around and try to send us a patch that would provide this functionality. I don't think we're considering to simply bump the number. It might be too dangerous for people with small machines. -- 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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