On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Ilmari Karonen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Come to think of it, shouldn't the toolserver have some resource use >> limits that would stop things like this from happening? A single >> non-root user running a fork bomb or anything similar really shouldn't >> be able to bring down the entire server. > > Maybe set ulimit -m to a gigabyte or something? > And limit the number of processes a user can run. while (1) { fork(); } is gonna run you out of pids rather than memory.
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