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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:15:24 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Subject: Re: [9fans] protection against resource exhaustion
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> 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.