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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: DoS with tmpfs #3
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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