Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:39:22 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Is it possible to give the user the option to cancel forkbombs? |
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> > I would like to see something done about this, with Ubuntu as popular as > > it is, even as a server in some cases. Is there a way that in the > > future, one could simply download a package or click a box or something > > and have a limit set, like the links suggest? That would make things > > just "that much" more convenient for system administrators (and might > > help them/us to remember to set these limits, too...). > > If you don't know which limits to set and need a package for them, your > job title should not be system administrator.
Thats a very arrogant viewpoint. I don't have to be a TV engineer to use my television.
Distributions should be providing sensible defaults out of the box. The kernel already provides them the mechanisms.
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