Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:00:20 -0400 From: "Goeringer, Michael" <goeringerm@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil> To: "'Steve Hovey'" <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: capping forks Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=Rome?Lab%l=KEYWEST-970922130020Z-1855@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil>
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In the kernel you can set CHILD_MAX=<your number here>. Ofcourse this affects the entire system so Doug may have a better solution. Michael G. ---------- From: Steve Hovey[SMTP:shovey@buffnet.net] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 1997 9:36 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: capping forks How does one safely limit the number of child processes a program can fork? The old smtp mailer I used did this fine, but smap does not and occational spam attacks have made problems. I compared source and they seem to use the same method but Im not up enough on this to be sure. Any ideas appreciated!
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