Re: DoS with tmpfs #3

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Sun, 5 Aug 2001 06:36:57 +1200


On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 03:07:31AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:

1) you create a tmpfs with a high limit, such that
(max size tmpfs) + (user memory) > ram + swap

maybe, by default, tmpfs should choose a limit of 1/2 ram available or
something? if this is too small, people can change it

--cw
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