Am Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2010 22:39:08 schrieb David Rientjes: > > If we really want kernel to detect forkbombs (*), we'd have to establish > > completely separate infrastructure for that (with its own knobs for tuning > > and possibilities of disabling it completely). > > > > That's what we're trying to do, we can look at the shear number of > children that the parent has forked and check for it to be over a certain > "forkbombing threshold" (which, yes, can be tuned from userspace), the > uptime of those children, their resident set size, etc., to attempt to > find a sane heuristic that penalizes them. Wouldn't it be saner to have a selection by user, so that users that are over the overcommit limit are targeted? Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>