From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
To: Matthew Wakeling <mnw21@bigfoot.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Serverto a Halt (was: remote DoS in Mozilla 1.0)
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:06:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D09CE45.C2D8152B@aitel.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206132255220.4999-100000@server3.jumpleads.com>
Matthew Wakeling wrote:
[...]
> However, one circumstance that throwing lots of swap around doesn't
> fix is when a process has an insatiable need for memory. In this case,
> either the process grows very quickly, or is just plain big. I think the
> out-of-memory killer should target big or growing processes. If it doesn't
> hit the correct process the first time, it will free up a lot more RAM
> than it would otherwise, and it would be likely to get it right the second
> time.
>
A fork bomb would kill everything else in your machine then. The bomb
program doesn't grow and is smaller than anythine else - but there's
so many of them. So all the other useful programs,
including shells, are killed. :-(
Helge Hafting
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-14 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-13 21:47 Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Server to a Halt (was: remote DoS in Mozilla 1.0) Jesse Pollard
2002-06-13 22:09 ` Matthew Wakeling
2002-06-14 10:44 ` Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Serverto " Bryan Andersen
2002-06-14 11:06 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
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