On 4 Feb 2002, Bryan Paxton wrote:
> As for the fork() bomb, well... A good system out of the box (or
> configured) shouldn't allow more than X amount of procs (40 is a good
> number, or 150 for SMP and higher).
> echo "* nproc 40" > /etc/security/limits.conf
> (or whatever number you prefer to limit your lusers to)
>
> Of course, this can be taken further with security patches (grsecurity,
> LIDS, etc...)
>
> Assuming is a bad idea ; )
Well can Mandrake add it to msec level >=3?
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