From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 17 13: 3:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80B28157A3 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:03:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id BAA02216; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 01:56:20 +0600 (UDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id BAA01329; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 01:25:56 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by localhost.cgu.chel.su (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA01673; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 01:24:53 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.cgu.chel.su: ilia owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 01:24:53 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@localhost.cgu.chel.su To: Alec Kalinin Cc: Mark Newton , Oleg Derevenetz , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Probably bug with allocation memory in FreeBSD-3.2-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <027401bee88f$2e503b90$a34562c3@alec.relex.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Alec Kalinin wrote: > > > Why i think this is bug? Because any user can hung FreeBSD, settings in > > > /etc/login.conf can't help. > > >Are you sure about that? Setting datasize limits will prevent > >malloc() from doing what you're trying to make it do. Are you > >sure you're setting your login.conf settings properly? > guys, just a silly question ! how dod you think login.conf works with xdm ?! right ! xdm simply ignores it ... > > I am sure, that setting limits in "/etc/login.conf" is not good decision. I > try to explain. > > First of all, if i set limits more than swap space, one user can hung > system. But, if i set limit equal half swap space, two different users can > hung system. > > Than, i don't set limits for root process. And combinantion "squid + > Netscape with java applet" from root may hung system. > > While 3.2-system can't simply kill this process like 2.2.8-system? I think, > killing this process -- best solution. > > Good luck, > Alec. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message