Re: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc

1999-09-21 Thread Bryan Talbot
At 04:23 PM 9/21/99 , Kip Macy wrote: Thanks. Although having maxfiles == maxfilesperproc might make sense for special cases e.g. a machine completely dedicated to one process -- It is dangerous at best for the general case. Any malicious program can make a machine running FreeBSD non-functional.

Re: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc

1999-09-21 Thread Gregory Sutter
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 04:23:19PM -0700, Kip Macy wrote: Thanks. Although having maxfiles == maxfilesperproc might make sense for special cases e.g. a machine completely dedicated to one process -- It is dangerous at best for the general case. Any malicious program can make a machine running

Re: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc

1999-09-21 Thread Kip Macy
You are correct -- what one really needs is a per user limit on files -- there may already be something to that effect, although I do not know of it. On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Bryan Talbot wrote: At 04:23 PM 9/21/99 , Kip Macy wrote: Thanks. Although having maxfiles == maxfilesperproc might make

RE: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc

1999-09-21 Thread Kip Macy
Obviously not from the default settings. Typically limits are in place to protect something from something. This, however, may be an exception. -Kip On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, David Schwartz wrote: Thanks. Although having maxfiles == maxfilesperproc might

Re: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc

1999-09-21 Thread Tom
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Kip Macy wrote: Thanks. Although having maxfiles == maxfilesperproc might make sense for special cases e.g. a machine completely dedicated to one process -- It is dangerous at best for the general case. Any malicious program can make a machine running FreeBSD

Re: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc

1999-09-21 Thread Doug
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Kip Macy wrote: You are correct -- what one really needs is a per user limit on files -- there may already be something to that effect, although I do not know of it. That's because you completely disregarded all of the explanations for the current behavior that