On my PC with 6GB of RAM under Windows 7 the paging file size is set to 6014 MB by default (its initial size is equal to amount of RAM, as follows from article Change the size of virtual memory on Microsoft’s website):
Category Archives: Operating Systems
Securing Apache web server on Ubuntu Linux
Running Apache virtual hosts as different users
By default, Apache on Ubuntu executes all PHP scripts under www-data user, hence in situations where multiple mutually distrusting users have the possibility to put their PHP scripts on the server they could potentially spy on each other private data.
For example, the user user1 could put a PHP script that access file ‘file1.txt’ belonging to user2:
echo file_get_contents("/home/user2/www/file1.txt");
