On Thursday 12 September 2002 03:43 pm, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 12 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 20:08, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> > > These problems can be solved via ulimit. I was referring to things
> > > like rsyncd which was blowing up under certain situations, but runs
> > > under a trusted account (say UID=0). In order to condemn it you'd need
> > > the setup I've mentioned.
> >
> > Ulimit won't help you one iota
>
> Why so pessimistic? You can ban users using ulimit, as you know. (You will
> always remember when you wake up and your memory is ulimited to 1MB.)
>
> Thunder
ulimit is a per login limit, not a global per user limit. The sum of all user
logins can still exceed the available memory. Even a large number of
simultaneous network connections (telnetd/sshd) can drive a system OOM.
Now, which of these processes should be killed?
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