From owner-freebsd-security Tue Aug 17 22:21:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA91F14D8B for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:21:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA04969; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:21:50 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990817231823.0464ba90@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:20:50 -0600 To: Mike Tancsa , Matthew Dillon From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Any work around for this FreeBSD bug/DoS ? Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990817202758.0513f630@granite.sentex.ca> References: <199908171736.KAA18291@apollo.backplane.com> <4.1.19990816203409.05989960@granite.sentex.ca> <4.1.19990816213403.05a3b540@granite.sentex.ca> <3.0.5.32.19990817131742.02a5f6c0@staff.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:28 PM 8/17/99 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: >Do any of the existing UNIX variants out there have this level of granularity? It's possible to set an automatically calculated limit based on other parameters, and to reserve some emergency space for the kernel and vital processes (the "banker's algorithm"). So, one doesn't HAVE to add infinitet granularity to guard against resource starvation. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message