From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Natanael Copa <mlists@tanael.org>
Cc: "Jacek Łuczak" <difrost@pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: forkbombing Linux distributions
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:11:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1112289106.1829.10.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1112263230.1165.15.camel@nc>
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 12:00 +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 19:40 +0200, Jacek Łuczak wrote:
> >
> > I made some tests and almost all Linux distros brings down while freebsd
> > survive!Forkbombing is a big problem but i don't think that something like
> I really liked this approach because:
Christ, why is this idiotic thread still going? No one is going to
change the kernel, because the problem is trivial to solve in userspace!
Didn't you ever look up what a ulimit is?
If you consider your distro's default ulimits unreasonable, file a bug
report with them. But no one is going to make Linux "restrictive by
default" to make life easier for people who don't bother to RTFM.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-31 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-30 17:40 forkbombing Linux distributions Jacek Łuczak
2005-03-31 10:00 ` Natanael Copa
2005-03-31 17:11 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-04-05 9:47 ` Natanael Copa
2005-04-05 10:18 ` Jacek Luczak
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-28 17:28 Matthieu Castet
2005-03-28 17:56 ` folkert
2005-03-28 19:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-28 19:39 ` folkert
2005-03-28 20:35 ` Renate Meijer
2005-03-29 12:31 ` Natanael Copa
2005-03-30 23:46 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2005-03-31 6:55 ` Natanael Copa
2005-03-31 7:09 ` Jacek Łuczak
2005-03-22 17:09 Natanael Copa
2005-03-21 3:06 William Beebe
2005-03-21 3:22 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-21 3:26 ` William Beebe
2005-03-21 3:27 ` Peter Chubb
2005-03-21 5:14 ` Grant Coady
2005-03-21 7:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-22 11:26 ` Hikaru1
2005-03-22 11:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
[not found] ` <20050322124812.GB18256@roll>
2005-03-22 12:50 ` Hikaru1
2005-03-23 10:56 ` aq
2005-03-23 12:37 ` Natanael Copa
2005-03-23 13:04 ` aq
2005-03-23 13:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-23 13:54 ` Natanael Copa
2005-03-23 14:20 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-03-23 14:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-23 15:04 ` Natanael Copa
2005-03-24 7:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-24 10:05 ` Natanael Copa
2005-03-23 19:38 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-03-23 20:26 ` Natanael Copa
2005-03-23 17:05 ` aq
2005-03-23 18:05 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-23 18:44 ` aq
2005-03-23 20:15 ` Natanael Copa
2005-03-23 20:48 ` Natanael Copa
2005-03-23 13:45 ` Erik Mouw
2005-03-23 14:03 ` Natanael Copa
2005-03-23 13:53 ` Max Kellermann
2005-03-23 14:23 ` Natanael Copa
2005-03-23 14:27 ` Max Kellermann
2005-03-23 14:44 ` Natanael Copa
2005-03-23 14:52 ` Max Kellermann
2005-03-23 15:18 ` Natanael Copa
2005-03-26 10:37 ` Tux
2005-03-28 8:03 ` Natanael Copa
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