Subject: Re: NetBSD1.6 UVM problem?
To: Gary Thorpe <gathorpe79@yahoo.com>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/09/2002 16:16:08
Gary Thorpe wrote:
> Its funny how people can rail about how a 0.5 sec delay on fork() when
> a process limit is reached is "punishing" processes unfairly but have
> no problem with killing them at random when memory is overcommited...so
> much for reliability: you can lock up/crash/reboot *BSD or Linux

You cannot lockup/crash/reboot box like this, not NetBSD. The memory
eaters are killed and system recovers.

> systems with a "malloc big memory, fork a bunch of times, then write to
> memory" 10-30 line program. Why not worry about these fork "bombs"?
> They seem like they are much more destructive.

Jaromir 
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