Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: forkbombing Linux distributions | From | Natanael Copa <> | Date | Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:23:34 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 14:53 +0100, Max Kellermann wrote: > On 2005/03/22 12:49, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote: > > What if the few procs that he may spawn also grab so much memory so > > your machine disappears in swap-t(h)rashing? > > The number of processes is counted per user, but CPU time and memory > consumption is counted per process.
So limiting maximum number of processes will automatically limit CPU time and memory consumption per user?
-- Natanael Copa
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