artificial limit, 1024 processes by user

Xose Vazquez Perez xose.vazquez at gmail.com
Sat May 14 17:33:46 UTC 2011


hi,

default is 24010, but it was reduced to 1024 by
user(included root) in: /etc/security/limits.d/90-nproc.conf
to prevent accidental fork bombs(see rhbz #432903).

Is it still worth it? The kernel brings oom_kill.


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