From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 16 13:51: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CE1C37C033 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:50:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdf.lists@fxp.org) Received: by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix, from userid 1016) id A3D7B9B1F; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:50:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9851BBA03; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:50:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:50:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: cdf.lists@pawn.primelocation.net To: Roman Shterenzon Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <966430591.399a8f7f98837@webmail.harmonic.co.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Roman Shterenzon wrote: > Hi, > > In the shipping param.c file the maxfilesperproc is made equal to overall > maxfiles, e.g. kern.maxfiles=kern.maxfilesperproc. > This creates a possibility of DoS, or I'm missing something? > Perhaps it's better to leave some minimal window for other processes? > Or even make it fraction of maxfiles? > Or properly configure login classes so lusers cannot reach maxfiles ----- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message