From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 10 16:55:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from patrocles.silby.com (d178.as5.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.139.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9CD337B41D for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 16:55:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (silby@localhost) by patrocles.silby.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1AIxcD29595; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 18:59:38 GMT (envelope-from silby@silby.com) X-Authentication-Warning: patrocles.silby.com: silby owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 18:59:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Gaspar Chilingarov Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fork rate limit In-Reply-To: <20020210214601.GA21111@mail.web.am> Message-ID: <20020210185842.K29546-100000@patrocles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Gaspar Chilingarov wrote: > Hi there! > > I've implemented suggested limits, and if you are interested, you can > try attached patch, if it's OK, i will submit it to PR database. > > Two new RLIMIT_ constants added, that control how many processes spawn > in which period. The only place from where you can set limits is a > login.conf. Also fork rate-limit does not affect processes which belong > to root. I finished looking at the patch, and I'm not impressed by it. It looks like the patch I'm working on will work more effectively; I'll post or commit it in a few days. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message