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Date:      05 Apr 2003 13:59:48 -0500
From:      Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net>
To:        Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Protecting against fork bombs
Message-ID:  <1049569188.91991.24.camel@jake>
In-Reply-To: <20030405202158.B34257-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org>
References:  <20030405202158.B34257-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org>

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On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 13:22, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:

> 	ulimit -u 100
> 
> does not do that for you adequately enough (or setting the same in
> /etc/login.conf (field maxproc)) ??

I suppose ulimit would do the trick .. Are there any standard guidelines
for how many processes to allow? This box is 1.5GHz Athlon, 512mb RAM,
1024mb swap ..

-- 
Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net>



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