On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 01:18:13PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> This deals with a mmap+fork bomb that can cause the kernel to
> eat all of KVM in vm_map_entry structures. The default limit
> should be set generously enough for people using the current
> FreeBSD threads incarnation (and isn't an issue w/ linux
> threads due to rfork resulting in scaling of the limit for the
> shared address space).
>
> Heads up in case a heavy threads programmer sees something I missed.
Note that thread stack allocation in libc_r also uses mmap() (one region
per thread), so this applies there as well.
Jason
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