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Date:      Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:20:50 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any work around for this FreeBSD bug/DoS  ?
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19990817231823.0464ba90@localhost>
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>

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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



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