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SubjectRe: Overcomittable memory
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 08:32:39AM +0000, James Sutherland wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>
>
> Proper per-user resource limits, OTOH, WOULD be a good thing IMO. They
> wouldn't completely solve the problem, but should certainly make it much
> more difficult for Joe Random Luser to "malloc-bomb" the box - he'd just
> eat up his quota instead.
>

It's called rlimits. You can setup a loginshell wrapper like all the well
admined shell account boxes do.

You mean per-process resource limits, and not having that is one of the
things that make us faster than vms :)


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