Re: Fork bombing Attack

2007-05-17 Thread Marat Buharov
May be because Mars was in Scorpio? On 5/17/07, Anand Jahagirdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Sir, I just want to know whether fork bombing attack still exist on the machine having Distribution as Fedora Core 6 and Linux Kernel 2.6.x.? additional Info : I have set ul

Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

2007-04-27 Thread Marat Buharov
On 4/27/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aside: why the heck do applications think that their data is so important that they need to fsync it all the time. I used to run a kernel on my laptop which had "return 0;" at the top of fsync() and fdatasync(). Most pleasurable. So, if hav

Re: assembly code in the loadable kernel module

2007-04-27 Thread Marat Buharov
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Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Marat Buharov
[Offtopic] Today, April, 26, 21 year has been passed since Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster, and Linus announced *drum roll* 2.6.21 !!! What a mysterious coincidence... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROT

Re: NonExecutable Bit in 32Bit

2007-04-25 Thread Marat Buharov
On 4/25/07, Cestonaro, Thilo (external) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And this prevents the lowmemory to be secured by NX? What do you mean, when you say "lowmemory"? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majord

why UDF have so ugly filesize limit?

2007-04-19 Thread Marat Buharov
from fs/udf/super.c: in function udf_fill_super sb->s_maxbytes = 1<<30; (1 GB) Why sb->s_maxbytes is not equal to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE? So, in include/linux/fs.h written that the filesystems should put that (MAX_LFS_FILESIZE) into their s_maxbytes, otherwise bad things can happen in VM. - To unsubsc

Re: 2.6.20.6 vanilla does't boot

2007-04-12 Thread Marat Buharov
[17179569.184000] >>> ERROR: Invalid checksum Seems like you have buggie bios. As the workaround try to start your kernel with noacpi parameter. Solution: Upgrade the BIOS firmware with the latest version available from the manufacturer. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri