on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:56:37PM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> How does one prevent a non-root user from locking up the system with:
>
> perl -e "while(1){fork}"
>
> System seems to become utterly unresponsive. (It's a loaded question, I
> know.) Please no answers like: "don't do that" or "working by design".
/etc/security/limits.conf
Depending on your release, 'man 5 limits' or 'man 5 limits.conf'.
Set a maximum number of user processes and/or files and/or memory for
user(s) in question. This can be particularly useful, say, for avoiding
system thrash when innundated by thousands of viral mails all needing
filtering by Spamassassin.
Peace.
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