On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 02:37:09PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote: > > ideally, when an application that cares about this is installed, it could > > increase it via sysctl.conf > > That default isn't a one size fits all. Regardless of what we set it to, > > someone is going to want it smaller/bigger. > > I think we want to be very careful how much we suggest $random-package > muck with sysctl. Ubuntu got a black eye since wine automatically > changed mmap_min_addr if it was installed. It's not always clear what > the implications of a change include. How many people on this list (the > kernel list) would have guessed that the suggestion here would allow > 5-10 users completely DoS a 32 machine? > > Rex, if you do decide to change it in sysctl lets try to keep it within > a factor of 10 or so? You might want to ask the upstream kernel > community what they think. It's unfortunate that we have no way to determine at install time "this is going to be a multiuser machine" There are probably a bunch of other changes that a standalone desktop machine could make knowing that. Dave _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
