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From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Local DoS (was: Strange 'zombie' problem both in 2.4 and 2.6)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:27:34 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040615002734.GA9801@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0406140959250.30433@dlang.diginsite.com>

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:01:53AM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> I think I may be running into the same (or a similar) issue with a 
> workload that forks heavily (~3500 forks/sec). What can I do to let the 
> system survive this sort of load? 

Hi David,

v2.6.7-mm tree contains a fix for this, adding a rlimit for
pending signals.

Can you describe the problem you are seeing in more detail?



  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-15  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-09  9:11 Local DoS (was: Strange 'zombie' problem both in 2.4 and 2.6) Nikita V. Youshchenko
2004-04-09 14:45 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-04-13 13:10 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-06-14 17:01   ` David Lang
2004-06-15  0:27     ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-06-15  1:31       ` David Lang

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