Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 12:27:58 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug) Message-ID: <39394E2E.3706C561@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006021647100.10651-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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Matt Heckaman wrote:
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> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Brett Glass wrote:
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> : An interesting related point: By default, the current sysinstall doesn't
> : create a separate /tmp. It leaves /tmp as a directory in the rather small
> : root partition. An action as simple as downloading a large file via Lynx
> : (which downloads to /tmp and then moves files to a destination) is
> : enough to overflow the root partition.
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> I would like to see a system where it choose defaults based on two
> classes, we'll call them "workstation" and "server" for the purpose of
> this discussion. The defaults now are fairly decent for a workstation with
> the addition of /tmp mentioned herein.
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> However, I've see alot of people new to FreeBSD get bit HARD by those
> defaults especially in any system that delivers e-mail to /var/mail. The
> default for /var is horribly low, I never did understand that myself. It
> would be nice to say "are you are server or workstation" and then spit out
> some better default variables based on the answer.
Actually the defaults are ridiculous in the days of 6GB disks being
hard to find. I use 128MB root and var partitions on small laptops.
I do think it would be of value to ask quite early in the installation
if this is intended to be a workstation or server configuration and
suggest different defaults for such things throughout the install.
As always, we await your patches. ;^)
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"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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