From: David Ford <david+powerix@blue-labs.org>
To: Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Forking shell bombs
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 11:07:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F0C2FCB.8060304@blue-labs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030708212517.GO1030@dbz.icequake.net>
No such thing exists. I can have 10,000 processes doing nothing and
have a load average of 0.00. I can have 100 processes each sucking cpu
as fast as the electrons flow and have a dead box.
Learn how to manage resource limits and you can tuck another feather
into your fledgeling sysadmin hat ;)
david
Ryan Underwood wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 04:43:18PM -0400, jhigdon wrote:
>
>
>>Have you tried this on any 2.5.x kernels? Just curious to see what it
>>does, I plan on giving it a go later.
>>
>>
>
>I haven't, but a previous poster indicated that they had (2.5.74) with
>the same results.
>
>I wonder if we could find an upper limit on the number of allowable
>processes that would leave the box in a workable state? Unfortunately,
>I don't have a spare box to test such things on at the moment. ;)
>
>Thanks,
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-09 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-07-08 20:28 ` Forking shell bombs Ryan Underwood
2003-07-08 20:37 ` vlad
2003-07-08 20:43 ` jhigdon
2003-07-08 21:25 ` Ryan Underwood
2003-07-08 22:43 ` Sir Ace
2003-07-09 15:07 ` David Ford [this message]
2003-07-09 21:10 ` Ryan Underwood
2003-07-13 9:10 ` Riley Williams
2003-07-13 9:40 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-13 14:17 ` Gene Heskett
2003-07-08 21:59 ` system_lists
2003-07-08 17:18 ` Max Valdez
2003-07-08 22:25 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-08 22:26 ` Svein Ove Aas
2003-07-08 22:51 ` Ryan Underwood
2003-07-10 12:32 ` Luiz Capitulino
2003-07-08 23:05 ` Wakko Warner
2003-07-09 11:36 ` Michael Buesch
2003-07-09 11:05 Arvind Kandhare
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-08 22:26 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-07-08 18:45 Ryan Underwood
2003-07-08 18:55 ` Charles Cazabon
2003-07-08 22:01 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-08 19:23 ` jhigdon
2003-07-08 20:35 ` vlad
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