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Date:      Mon, 04 Oct 1999 15:36:11 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [Patches avail?] Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ... 
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19991004153611.010a93a0@staff.sentex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199910041934.MAA68497@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910042004360.487-100000@ady.warpnet.ro> <3.0.5.32.19991004152203.00f11370@staff.sentex.ca>

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At 12:34 PM 10/4/99 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
>:Speaking of mmap, was this DoS every fixed/ commited to stable ?
>:
>:With 
>:slag3% limit -h
>:cputime         unlimited
>:filesize        32768 kbytes
>
>    No.  There is no limit on how much memory can be allocated via mmap().
>
>    There will soon be a resource limit to help determine which process(es) 
>    to kill when a machine runs out of swap, and someone was working on a
>    per-user (rather then per-process) overall memory use resource-limit, but
>    neither yet exists .


Thanks for the response.  Do you imagine that this would be integrated into
stable, or would this be a 4.x branch change only.

	---Mike
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Mike Tancsa,                          	          tel 01.519.651.3400
Network Administrator,     			  mike@sentex.net
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Cambridge, Ontario Canada


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