Re: 2.4.x VM problems thread

["Hua Zhong" <hzhong@andiamo.com>]

Well you can kill Solaris in this way too.  The system just can't fork more
than a certain number of processes. But as long as you manage to kill them,
you will be fine again.

So what exactly does it have to do with VM?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Unangst" <tedu@stanford.edu>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: "Igmar Palsenberg" <maillist@jdimedia.nl>;
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: 2.4.x VM problems thread


> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > Wow a memory-mapped fork bomb! Now what on earth did you expect?
> > Run it from a user-account with ulimits enabled for slightly less
> > than the total system resources. Then complain.
>
> not even mmap'ed.
>
> case 0: break;
>                                 tmp = mmap(0, 64 * 4096, PROT_EXEC,
> MAP_SHARED
> | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
>
> the mmap never even gets run.  might as well be for(;;) fork();
>
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dick Johnson
> >
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