Re: 2.4.8 Resource leaks + limits

[Magnus Naeslund]

"Linus Torvalds" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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> In article <3ce801c12548$b7971750$020a0a0a@totalmef> you write:
> >
> >Question: why isn't there a limit for global memory usage per user?
>
> Answer: because traditionally Linux (or UNIX) hasn't had a good and
> efficient way to have per-user statistics.
>

Well this problem is not so hard, i'll just set "nproc = maxglobal / data"
or something like that for now.
Too bad if any of my users want to run many diet processes, but that's life.

The more serious part of my little alloc adventure is much more dangerous:

Whattaheck happened to my resources?
I _still_ can't log in to that box as a luser (root works).

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> Linus
>

Magnus