Not necessarily. I agree that it's dismal, but all good system administrators set appropriate ulimits for their users. See the ulimit manpage for your shell(s). Parameters to pay particular attention to are max open file descriptors, cpu seconds used, and processes available to the user. (This is after a fleeting test here, so I've obviously not caught everything.) --- Dan Chen crimsun@email.unc.edu GPG key: www.unc.edu/~crimsun/pubkey.gpg.asc On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 martin@as3-1-1.hn.g.bonet.se wrote: [...]
I thought that this type of problems were fixed in Linux (by limiting child processes etc) and I think that I tested this variant some years ago and the system refused to "go down". [...]
The kernels tested are 2.2.19 and 2.4.10-25 and both give the same result.
Something for the kernel people to consider???!!!
Best regards Martin F