Re: fork throttling (was Re: Some proposals to FreeBSD kernel)

2000-07-10 Thread Paul Herman
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Well, IMHO I think something like this implemented in the kernel for > the reasons given above would let people write bad code. Yup, that clinches it for me. You're right. This would have fallen more into the catagory of "bad program design fix" rathe

Re: fork throttling (was Re: Some proposals to FreeBSD kernel)

2000-07-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000, Paul Herman wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2000, Paul Herman wrote: > > > Perhaps a discussion of something like FORK_RATELIMIT along the lines > > > of ICMP_BANDLIM is in order? > > > > why would you do that? If something wants t

fork throttling (was Re: Some proposals to FreeBSD kernel)

2000-07-10 Thread Paul Herman
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2000, Paul Herman wrote: > > Perhaps a discussion of something like FORK_RATELIMIT along the lines > > of ICMP_BANDLIM is in order? > > why would you do that? If something wants to fork, let it fork. When > it hits the upper limit defin