[Gllug] Take a look at my photos on Facebook

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:39:21PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> On 10 Nov 2009, Avi Greenbury spake thusly:
> > [0] Yes, applications should be able to fail without taking the OS with
> > them. This is still an issue in Windows.
> 
> And on Linux unless rlimits *and* process count limits are set, which is
> very rare because setting them both so low that malloc()ing fork bombs
> can't take the machine down constrains things too much for most real
> uses.

One day the OpenVZ folk may finally succeed in merging User
Beancounters, which solves this problem nicely.

http://wiki.openvz.org/User_pages_accounting

Rich.

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