Fork bombing a Linux machine as a non-root user

[Scot L. Harris]

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 12:40, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

> 
> > As Linux becomes more main stream the assumption has to be that users
> > won't have the expertise to tune a system.  As such reasonable defaults
> > and limits should be put in place to protect the user and the system.
> > Those that have requirements that exceed these limits should be in the
> > 10% range if the defaults and limits are well selected.
> 
> I think it's a good idea. But I can see all those Joe-Users flooding 
> the mailinglists with messages like "When trying to run X I receive 
> error Y: resources exhausted."

Which why a reasonable set of limits need to be selected that work for
90% of the users out there.  There will always be some that will have to
modify those limits.  But a good default can be arrived at.
 
-- 
Scot L. Harris
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