Re: restricting patch for webservers

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:45:20 +0100


Hi!

> i have written a kernel patch for (more or less) public access machines
> (in my case : web servers, some with telnet access).
> the problems i have are :
> - people can run any number of processes, and this way make everything
> slow.
> - if a few programms are doing heavy i/o traffic, all other programs
> suffer.

That patch is nice, but:

You really do not want 4 new syscalls. What about adding this to
normal limit system [rlimit()]?

Pavel

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