Re: crash by high values in /proc/sys/net/core/[rw]mem_*

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
03 Feb 1999 19:19:01 +0100

In article <19990203173256.B613@stefan.sime.com>,
stefan@sime.com (Stefan Traby) writes:
> Hi !
> Linux 2.2.1 oopses after putting (silly) high values
> into /proc/sys/net/core/[rw]mem_{default,max}.

Linux 2.2 doesn't have per-user in-core memory limiting, although
the basic infrastructure for it is there.

Currently: don't do such stupid things as root.

-Andi

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