Re: Forking shell bombs

Sir Ace
2003-07-08T22:28:38Z

HP/UX and some other systems, have kernel parameters that can be set for
max number of processes, and or threads. I'm not a big fan of it myself,
since there are instances where it would appear to be a 'fork attack' but
be legitimate threads or forks.

Not to mention it is just tacky... A better solution is:

Know thy users, .... and thy baseball bat.

-- Sir Ace

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, 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,
>