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?

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        Dan Nelson
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