At 12:34 PM 10/4/99 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
>:Speaking of mmap, was this DoS every fixed/ commited to stable ?
>:
>:With 
>:slag3% limit -h
>:cputime         unlimited
>:filesize        32768 kbytes
>
>    No.  There is no limit on how much memory can be allocated via mmap().
>
>    There will soon be a resource limit to help determine which process(es) 
>    to kill when a machine runs out of swap, and someone was working on a
>    per-user (rather then per-process) overall memory use resource-limit, but
>    neither yet exists .


Thanks for the response.  Do you imagine that this would be integrated into
stable, or would this be a 4.x branch change only.

        ---Mike
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