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Date:      Sun, 6 Apr 2003 06:04:30 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Protecting against fork bombs
Message-ID:  <20030406030430.GA4130@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <1049569188.91991.24.camel@jake>
References:  <20030405202158.B34257-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> <1049569188.91991.24.camel@jake>

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On 2003-04-05 13:59, Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net> wrote:
>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 ..

Anything above 100 should probably be fine for individual users, even if
they want to run X11.  You can always experiment and increase as needed.

- Giorgos



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