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From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] protection against resource exhaustion
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:15:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5e38f077840a332e8fd10fb77efa5a0b@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150126231029.8c160c2541c3a8ed07c0a62f@eigenstate.org>

> IMO, instead of killing processes, it would be better to keep the hanging
> behavior in place, but place limits on the resources used by a subsection
> of the process tree. Think ulimit, but applying to entire process heirarchies.

Once you introduce limits, you become responsible for applying them
wisely.  Good luck!

Lucio.




  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-27  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-25  6:16 arisawa
2015-01-25  6:59 ` mischief
2015-01-25 17:41   ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-26 11:47     ` arisawa
2015-01-26 12:46       ` cinap_lenrek
2015-01-26 14:13       ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-27  0:33         ` arisawa
2015-01-27  1:30           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-01-27  4:13             ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-27  4:22           ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-27  7:03             ` arisawa
2015-01-27  7:10               ` Ori Bernstein
2015-01-27  7:15                 ` lucio [this message]
2015-01-27 14:05                 ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-27  7:12               ` lucio
2015-01-27 14:10               ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-28  0:10                 ` arisawa
2015-01-28  3:38                   ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-28  6:50                     ` arisawa
2015-01-28  7:22                       ` lucio
2015-01-28  7:48                       ` Quintile
2015-01-28 13:13                       ` cinap_lenrek
2015-01-28 14:03                         ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-28 14:09                           ` lucio
2015-01-28 14:14                             ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-28 14:53                               ` lucio
2015-01-28 17:02                                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2015-01-28 14:16                       ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-28 17:28                       ` Charles Forsyth
2015-01-28 17:39                         ` cinap_lenrek
2015-01-28 18:51                           ` Charles Forsyth
2015-01-29  3:57                             ` arisawa
2015-01-29  6:34                               ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-29  6:42                         ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-29  8:11                           ` arisawa
2015-01-27 10:53             ` Charles Forsyth
2015-01-27 14:01               ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-25  9:04 ` arisawa
2015-01-25 11:06   ` Bence Fábián

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