At which point, doesn't this make it a distribution problem, not a kernel problem? You seem to be hinting at this in your article, but you also seem to be hinting that the blame lies in the kernel itself.

i.e. on an old RH9 box /etc/security/limits.conf there are no limits set. That's not the fault of the kernel, that's the fault of RedHat for not creating a default limit.

The kernel provides the mechanisms, it just looks like most distros aren't using it, with the exception of debian. That's quite sad, but I don't know that you can blame the kernel for lack of decent system configuration.

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