making ubuntu more robust (Re: Forkbomb??

[Philippe Landau]

Michael Hipp wrote:
> But for everyone else, they expect their distro to be as secure out of 
> the box as reasonably possible. (Ubuntu has done a great job of this.) 
> Putting a limiting value on procs would help everyone and likely harm 
> no-one.
i even think a configurable and optional reaper
is a feature which is missing in all linux distributions
and would be most welcome,
allowing you to tune resource allocation priorities
in all areas of hardware use: disk space, cpu, network, etc.

kind regards     philippe