On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:13:39PM -0800, Jason Evans wrote:
> 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.
Never mind. Matt stated this correctly, and I misread it.
Jason
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