> 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 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"