From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Federico Sevilla III <jijo@free.net.ph>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
BugTraq Mailing List <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rlimits and non overcommit (was: Very large font size ...)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:11:25 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2660.1023948685@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:57:33 +0800." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206131352510.3677-100000@kalabaw>
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:57:33 +0800 (PHT),
Federico Sevilla III <jijo@free.net.ph> wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 at 06:39, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > check to prevent such large sizes from crashing X and/or the X Font
>> > Server, I'm alarmed by (1) the way the X font server allows itself to
>> > be crashed like this, and (2) the way the entire Linux kernel seems to
>> > have been unable to handle the situation. While having a central
>> > company or
>>
>> So turn on the features to conrol it. Set rlimits on the xfs server and
>> enable non overcommit (-ac kernel)
>
>I am using SGI's XFS, and I think they follow Marcelo's kernels for the
SGI's XFS != xfs server. SGI XFS == journalling filesystem.
xfs server == font server for the X windowing system.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-13 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20020610102006.A6947@lemuria.org>
2002-06-13 1:44 ` Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Server to a Halt (was: remote DoS in Mozilla 1.0) Federico Sevilla III
2002-06-13 5:39 ` Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Server to Alan Cox
2002-06-13 5:57 ` rlimits and non overcommit (was: Very large font size ...) Federico Sevilla III
2002-06-13 6:11 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2002-06-13 9:25 ` rlimits and non overcommit Federico Sevilla III
2002-06-13 7:18 ` Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Server to a Halt (was: remote DoS in Mozilla 1.0) Matti Aarnio
2002-06-13 16:26 ` rjh
2002-06-14 13:50 ` Security Coordinator
2002-06-13 21:10 ` Matthew Wakeling
2002-06-13 22:33 ` Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Server to a Halt Bernd Eckenfels
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