From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:25:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:25:01 -0400 Received: from andiamo.com ([161.58.172.50]:37038 "EHLO andiamo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:24:50 -0400 Message-ID: <089001c11f87$3dd04570$103147ab@cisco.com> From: "Hua Zhong" To: "Richard B. Johnson" Cc: "Igmar Palsenberg" , In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: 2.4.x VM problems thread Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 14:23:39 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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" To: "Richard B. Johnson" Cc: "Igmar Palsenberg" ; 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 > > > > Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips). > > > > I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be > > attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del > > was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any. > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > > -- > "I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. > Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and > Michael Dukakis no less." > - M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >