Re: [2.4.18] Security: Process-Killer if machine get's out of memory

From: Bernd Petrovitsch (bernd@gams.at)
Date: Sun Mar 24 2002 - 13:03:54 EST

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Christian Borntr ger <linux-kernel@borntraeger.net> wrote:
>Well, I think could be worth in terms of security, because a local user could
>use a bad memory-eating program to produce an Denial of Service of other
>processes.

man setrlimit

>Unfortunately detecting a program, written to cause harm is harder than
>detecting a crazy program.

ACK.
Bernd

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