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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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