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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:53:17 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] protection against resource exhaustion
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> the reason is that each process can have up to 16mb of stack, and this is unaccounted.
> thus the stack or (seg)?brk can commit to memory that will fault when you touch it.

It's a vague recollection, but the fact that the stack is being
overcommitted rings a bell.  Thanks, Erik.

Lucio.