Fork bombing a Linux machine as a non-root user

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 15:25 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:18:00PM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> 
>  > And yes there are tools available to help mitigate the potential problem
>  > as you pointed out.  But why not set a default limit instead of leaving
>  > it open?
> 
> Because then we get flooded with "I cant run two copies of openoffice, wtf?",
> "concurrent users of ftpd downloading iso's or other large files goes bang"
> and many other similar bugs.


But shouldn't there be some sane limit already applied? As a normal
user, I believe having ~300 user proceses would be more than enough? 

Why not ship it with a reasonable sane limit? 1000 perhaps?




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