On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Christian Bornträger wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > > Would it hard to do some memory allocation statistics, so if some
> > > process at one point (as rsync did) goes crazy eating all memory, that
> > > would be detected?
> >
> > No. What I doubt however is whether it would be worth it,
> > since most machines never run OOM.
>
> 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.
If you don't trust your users you should do some editing
of /etc/security/limits.conf instead of relying on the
safety net in the kernel.
regards,
Rik
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