Protecting against fork bombs
In light of the recent problems with cyclic Xft dependencies, it has become painfully obvious how quickly a fork bomb can bring my computer to a complete halt. Does FreeBSD provide any solutions for protecting against fork bombs? When I tried installing Mozilla yesterday morning, the explosion of 'make' processes brought my box to it's knees in minutes. I'd really like a way of protecting myself from something like this happening again. -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Protecting against fork bombs
On 5 Apr 2003, Adam wrote: In light of the recent problems with cyclic Xft dependencies, it has become painfully obvious how quickly a fork bomb can bring my computer to a complete halt. ulimit -u 100 does not do that for you adequately enough (or setting the same in /etc/login.conf (field maxproc)) ?? Dw/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Protecting against fork bombs
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 13:22, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: ulimit -u 100 does not do that for you adequately enough (or setting the same in /etc/login.conf (field maxproc)) ?? I suppose ulimit would do the trick .. Are there any standard guidelines for how many processes to allow? This box is 1.5GHz Athlon, 512mb RAM, 1024mb swap .. -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Protecting against fork bombs
On 2003-04-05 13:59, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 13:22, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: ulimit -u 100 does not do that for you adequately enough (or setting the same in /etc/login.conf (field maxproc)) ?? I suppose ulimit would do the trick .. Are there any standard guidelines for how many processes to allow? This box is 1.5GHz Athlon, 512mb RAM, 1024mb swap .. Anything above 100 should probably be fine for individual users, even if they want to run X11. You can always experiment and increase as needed. - Giorgos ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
