From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5e38f077840a332e8fd10fb77efa5a0b@proxima.alt.za> To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:15:24 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: <20150126231029.8c160c2541c3a8ed07c0a62f@eigenstate.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] protection against resource exhaustion Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3bc98516-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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.