In the last episode (Feb 04), Anthony Schneider said: > I've actually wanted something like this for a while and have considered > coding it myself. Perhaps this could go into a login.conf variable > (which I would have to create myself), but originally my plan was basically > kill off parent processes with the uid of the user who is fork()'ing too > often (200 per 10 seconds sounds good) simply hard-coded.
Killing off parent procs could really upset a regular user who is running ./configure, which could easily spawn a couple undred processes in 10 seconds. Maybe simply delay the fork() until the rate drops? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message