[Bug 911678] New: RN: limit number of processes
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911678 Bug ID: 911678 Summary: RN: limit number of processes Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Factory Version: 201412* Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Release Notes Assignee: ke@suse.com Reporter: ke@suse.com QA Contact: coolo@suse.com CC: bwiedemann@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Karl Eichwalder
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Jan Matějka
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--- Comment #3 from Bernhard Wiedemann
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--- Comment #4 from Jan Matějka
Normally, no more than 400 processes are running on a standard desktop.
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--- Comment #5 from Stephan Kulow
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--- Comment #6 from Bernhard Wiedemann
why do we need a hard limit at all? I don't see any use for that.
Without the hard limit, malicious non-root users or software could just disable the soft limit before forking thousands of processes. (In reply to Jan Matejka from comment #4)
(In reply to Bernhard Wiedemann from comment #3)
Normally, no more than 400 processes are running on a standard desktop.
What is a standard desktop?
What I saw running: KDE4 and icewm with various open applications (firefox, chromium, pidgin, xterms, ssh, rdesktop) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Karl Eichwalder
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Karl Eichwalder
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Stephan Kulow
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Karl Eichwalder
actually no. the pam is of SLE12 origin
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