Re: VM fixes [4/4]

[Rik van Riel]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> The other part of Thomas's change is this one:

> Thomas's changes worked better than previous code so far, he can clearly
> identify forkbombs or services spread across multiple processes.

> optimal. What he does above by killing the childs first is a lot more
> conservative and I'm fine with it as well.

I like it a lot, especially when thinking about overloaded
web servers and other loads that are common but not malicious.

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
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