Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:53:41 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vnode_pager_putpages hanged my machine Message-ID: <20040309085341.GA3283@grosbein.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <404D7C5B.9040104@users.sourceforge.net> References: <404D6D41.3040508@users.sourceforge.net> <20040309080145.GA35678@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <404D7C5B.9040104@users.sourceforge.net>
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> But any regular user can bring the system virtually to a stand > still this way. Shouldn't the OS prevent this to happen? > That's why I suspect a bug somewhere allowing this to happen. A system administrator must prevent such things from happening using limits(1) or login.conf(5). FreeBSD does not enforce memory usage limits by default. Eugene
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