Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 20:22:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> To: Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Protecting against fork bombs Message-ID: <20030405202158.B34257-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> In-Reply-To: <1049566249.91991.18.camel@jake>
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On 5 Apr 2003, Adam wrote: > In light of the recent problems with cyclic Xft dependencies, it has > become painfully obvious how quickly a fork bomb can bring my computer > to a complete halt. ulimit -u 100 does not do that for you adequately enough (or setting the same in /etc/login.conf (field maxproc)) ?? Dw/
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