Messages in this thread | | | From | Al Boldi <> | Subject | Re: Resource limits | Date | Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:18:17 +0300 |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Al Boldi wrote: > > Resource limits in Linux, when available, are currently very limited. > > > > i.e.: > > Too many process forks and your system may crash. > > This can be capped with threads-max, but may lead you into a lock-out. > > > > What is needed is a soft, hard, and a special emergency limit that would > > allow you to use the resource for a limited time to circumvent a > > lock-out. > > > > Would this be difficult to implement? > > How would you reclaim the resource after that limited time is > over ? Kill processes?
That's one way, but really, the issue needs some deep thought. Leaving Linux exposed to a lock-out is rather frightening.
Neil Horman wrote: > Whats insufficient about the per-user limits that can be imposed by the > ulimit syscall?
Are they system wide or per-user?
-- Al
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