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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 06:05:52 -0800
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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.

doesn't solve the issues of every program needing to deal with failed forks.
wouldn't you just love it if a programming error were to put acme in a wierd
state?  the machine might as well reboot, since you are likely the only user,
and the editor is wack.

- erik