From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: J?rn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] copyfile: generic_sendpage
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 17:16:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040905001653.GA3106@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040904153902.6ac075ea.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 03:39:02PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I don't know how much of a problem this is in practice - there are all
> sorts of nasty things which unprivileged apps can do to the system by
> overloading filesystems. Although most of them can be killed off by the
> sysadmin.
> (My infamous bash-shared-mappings stresstest can spend ten or more minutes
> within a single write() call, but you have to try hard to do this).
This reminds me; I'm having a chicken and egg problem with several
stresstests I've written but withheld until fixes for the crashes they
trigger are available, but the fixes appear to be hard enough to arrange
they need public commentary to find acceptable methods of addressing
them. What's the recommended procedure for all this?
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-05 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-04 16:57 [PATCH 1/3] copyfile: generic_sendpage Jörn Engel
2004-09-04 16:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] copyfile: sendfile Jörn Engel
2004-09-04 17:04 ` [PATCH 3/3] copyfile: copyfile Jörn Engel
2004-09-04 17:08 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-04 17:11 ` [PATCH 2/3] copyfile: sendfile Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-04 17:16 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-04 17:12 ` [PATCH 1/3] copyfile: generic_sendpage Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-04 17:22 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-04 17:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-07 8:32 ` Jan Blunck
2004-09-04 22:39 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-05 0:16 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-09-05 0:23 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-06 11:54 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-06 12:45 ` Gunnar Ritter
2004-09-06 13:35 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-06 14:32 ` Gunnar Ritter
2004-09-06 14:46 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-09-06 15:51 ` Gunnar Ritter
2004-09-07 11:09 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-07 11:45 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-07 12:03 ` Gunnar Ritter
2004-09-07 12:08 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-07 12:32 ` Gunnar Ritter
2004-09-07 11:48 ` Gunnar Ritter
2004-09-07 12:04 ` Jörn Engel
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