Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 01:55:59 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: nisha@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: Max data segment size Message-ID: <199605110855.BAA19486@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199605102030.WAA25232@uriah.heep.sax.de> (message from J Wunsch on Fri, 10 May 1996 22:30:50 %2B0200 (MET DST))
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* As David Greenman wrote: * * > There isn't any problem with increasing these limits as long as * > you realize that it will allow users to more easily spam the system * > by consuming all of the swapspace. They could probably do this, * > anyway, however. Yeah...that limit's for only one process, right? * Hmm, not even more wasted memory that could stomp one someone's toes * when running in 2 MB :) RAM only? In this case, i'd vote for bumping * the default hard limits. I wasn't proposing to change the default, 128MB is mighty big enough for most people. I just wanted assurance that it's not dangerous to do what I did. Well, maybe we can add a commented-out entry to LINT, because if we're going to ship ccd and the fixed disklabel.h and all to let people build their own wcarchive on one filesystem, we might as well tell them how they can fsck that beast.... :) Satoshi
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