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From: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
To: Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Forking shell bombs
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 19:05:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030708190517.A24202@animx.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030708202819.GM1030@dbz.icequake.net>; from Ryan Underwood on Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 03:28:19PM -0500

> Nope, on my system running stock 2.4.21, after hitting enter, wait about 2
> seconds, and the system is frozen.  Telnet connects but never gets a
> shell.  None of the SysRq process-killing combos have any effect.  After
> a few failed killalls (which eventually killed the one shell I was able
> to get), and Alt-SysRq-S never completing the sync, I gave up and
> Alt-SysRq-B.

I've used killall -STOP several times since it will fill up the process
table.  once they're all in T state, I killall -KILL them.  seems to work
for me.

-- 
 Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-08 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20030708193401.24226.95499.Mailman@lists.us.dell.com>
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
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 [this message]
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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