Re: [9fans] protection against resource exhaustion

2015-01-24 Thread mischief
You would need to implement something like ulimits to fix process exhaustion, or some kind of rate limit. There are several forms of resource exhaustion in plan 9. One other that comes to mind is cat /dev/random prevents other clients from making progress reading /dev/random, such as cpu. On Ja

[9fans] protection against resource exhaustion

2015-01-24 Thread arisawa
Hello 9fans my mac has a protection below: -bash$ cat foo #!/bin/sh ./foo -bash$ ./foo ./foo: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable -bash$ on the other hand, Plan 9 does not. kernel is protected against such programs, however they are not killed. therefore no new process can be created. does

[9fans] 9atom downtime

2015-01-24 Thread erik quanstrom
looks like a power even took out the motherboard. hopefully i can find some parts early next week. - erik