Don't forget that softlimit not only prevents misbehaving software from
running away and degrading the system's performance, but it ALSO
prevents resource starvation denial of service attacks.
On 6/9/11 11:45 AM, Sam Clippinger wrote:
Remember that the "softlimit" program only limits the maximum amount of
memory a process can use; it doesn't dictate how much it*will* use. It
was written as a last resort for stopping processes that were out of
control and leaking memory. It's big flaw is that you never get a
simple "out of memory" error -- all you see are inexplicable bugs like
the one Ron has been battling because (in this case) OpenSSL can't
allocate a buffer or whatever. Given the number of problems it seems to
create, I'd vote for simply removing it.
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