From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jan 26 14:19:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA01740 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 14:19:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA01364 Fri, 26 Jan 1996 14:12:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA28435; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 23:10:02 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA19630; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 23:09:53 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id WAA20112; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 22:29:20 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601262129.WAA20112@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: kern/971: Default limits for number of processes per user ridiculously low To: ylo@cs.hut.fi (Tatu Ylonen) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 22:29:20 +0100 (MET) Cc: petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de, FreeBSD-gnats@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601260849.KAA00602@trance.olari.clinet.fi> from "Tatu Ylonen" at Jan 26, 96 10:49:41 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)