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From: Jesse Pollard <pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil>
To: Thunder from the hill <thunder@lightweight.ods.org>,
       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Killing/balancing processes when overcommited
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On Thursday 12 September 2002 04:15 pm, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 12 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Because I've run real world large systems before. Ulimit is at best a
> > handy little toy for stopping web server accidents.
>
> Only if you assume that a bunch of users tries very hard to use up all the
> resources...
>
> 			Thunder

It only takes one.
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