Hi!
> >>main() { while(1) if (fork()) malloc(1); }
> >>With the patch below I could ssh to the host and killall the offending
> >>processes. To enable reserving VM space for root do
> > what about main() { while(1) system("ftp localhost &"); }
> > This. or so,ething similar should all
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> [snip exploit that really shouldn't take Linux down]
I don't really consider it as an exploit. It's a kind of workload
that's optimized for fast testing simulating many busy user daemons
(e.g. dyna
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 01:51:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > If you think fork() kills the box then ulimit the maximum number
> > > of user processes (ulimit -u). This is a different issue and a
> > > bad design in the scheduler (see e.g. Tru6
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 01:51:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > If you think fork() kills the box then ulimit the maximum number
> > of user processes (ulimit -u). This is a different issue and a
> > bad design in the scheduler (see e.g. Tru64 for a better one).
>
> My fair scheduler catches th
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
[snip exploit that really shouldn't take Linux down]
> This or something similar didn't kill the box [I've tried all local
> DoS from Packetstorm that I could find]. Please send a working
> example. Of course probably it's possible to trigg
On Wed, 1 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>main() { while(1) if (fork()) malloc(1); }
>>With the patch below I could ssh to the host and killall the offending
>>processes. To enable reserving VM space for root do
> what about main() { while(1) system("ftp localhost &"); }
> This.
Hi!
>I've also never said OOM killer should be disabled. In theory the
>non-overcommitting systems deadlock, Linux survives. Ironically
>usually it's just the opposite in practice. Any user can
>deadlock/crash Linux [default install, no quotas] but not an
>non-overcommitting system
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