From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unix socket local DOS (OOM)
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:25:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimhCumpPDktqLF9c19DP8Eh3f8PP-89zeGfpHNM@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290553918.2866.80.camel@edumazet-laptop>
On 24 November 2010 00:11, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le mardi 23 novembre 2010 à 23:21 +0100, Vegard Nossum a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found this program lying around on my laptop. It kills my box
>> (2.6.35) instantly by consuming a lot of memory (allocated by the
>> kernel, so the process doesn't get killed by the OOM killer). As far
>> as I can tell, the memory isn't being freed when the program exits
>> either. Maybe it will eventually get cleaned up the UNIX socket
>> garbage collector thing, but in that case it doesn't get called
>> quickly enough to save my machine at least.
>
> Hi Vegard
>
> Do you have a patch to correct this problem ?
No, sorry, I didn't look into it.
Vegard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-23 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-11-23 23:11 ` Unix socket local DOS (OOM) Eric Dumazet
2010-11-23 23:25 ` Vegard Nossum [this message]
2010-11-24 0:09 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] scm: lower SCM_MAX_FD Eric Dumazet
2010-11-24 19:17 ` David Miller
2010-11-24 9:18 ` [PATCH] af_unix: limit unix_tot_inflight Eric Dumazet
2010-11-24 14:44 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-24 15:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-24 16:25 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-24 17:14 ` David Miller
2010-11-26 8:50 ` Michal Hocko
2010-11-27 2:27 ` David Miller
2010-11-29 10:37 ` Michal Hocko
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