From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 5 10:59:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16F4A37B401 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 10:59:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.65.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E498543FA3 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 10:59:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blueeskimo@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 7677 invoked by uid 65534); 5 Apr 2003 18:59:53 -0000 Received: from i216-58-29-174.gta.igs.net (EHLO [216.58.29.174]) (216.58.29.174) by mail.gmx.net (mp008-rz3) with SMTP; 05 Apr 2003 20:59:53 +0200 From: Adam To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik In-Reply-To: <20030405202158.B34257-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> References: <20030405202158.B34257-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1049569188.91991.24.camel@jake> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 05 Apr 2003 13:59:48 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Protecting against fork bombs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 18:59:56 -0000 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