On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 15:25 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:18:00PM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > And yes there are tools available to help mitigate the potential problem > > as you pointed out. But why not set a default limit instead of leaving > > it open? > > Because then we get flooded with "I cant run two copies of openoffice, wtf?", > "concurrent users of ftpd downloading iso's or other large files goes bang" > and many other similar bugs. But shouldn't there be some sane limit already applied? As a normal user, I believe having ~300 user proceses would be more than enough? Why not ship it with a reasonable sane limit? 1000 perhaps? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 21:01:55 up 1 day, 24 min, 9 users, load average: 0.81, 1.07, 1.23
