On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 01:46 +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:28:20 +0200, Matthieu Castet > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The memory limits aren't good enough either: if you set them low > > > enough that memory-forkbombs are unperilous for > > > RLIMIT_NPROC*RLIMIT_DATA, it's probably too low for serious > > > applications. > > > > yes, if you want to run application like openoffice.org you need at > > least 200Mo. If you want that your system is usable, you need at least 40 > > process per user. So 40*200 = 8Go, and it don't think you have all this > > memory... > > > > I think per user limit could be a solution. > > > > attached a small fork-memory bombing. > > Doesn't do anything on my machine: > > # ulimits -a ...
> it tops at 100 processes and eats a little CPU... although the system > is under load, it's completely responsive. 100 processes is low. I often have over 150. I use the patch mentioned here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111209980932023&w=2 (it set the default max_threads and RLIMIT_NPROC to half of the current default) and my system survived. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ulimit -u 4093 (I have 1 GiB RAM) -- Natanael Copa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
