On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 12:40, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > > As Linux becomes more main stream the assumption has to be that users > > won't have the expertise to tune a system. As such reasonable defaults > > and limits should be put in place to protect the user and the system. > > Those that have requirements that exceed these limits should be in the > > 10% range if the defaults and limits are well selected. > > I think it's a good idea. But I can see all those Joe-Users flooding > the mailinglists with messages like "When trying to run X I receive > error Y: resources exhausted." Which why a reasonable set of limits need to be selected that work for 90% of the users out there. There will always be some that will have to modify those limits. But a good default can be arrived at. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx My mind is making ashtrays in Dayton ...