Messages in this thread | | | From | Matthew <> | Subject | Re: linux memory DOS | Date | Fri, 3 Sep 1999 00:05:44 -0500 |
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For the record, this same thing happened to me two days ago. X->pico. Maybe my fault for pico(ing) a 120M file (bash autocomplete mishap).
Matthew
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, Rene Chaddock wrote: > Just for the record, my computer went down because it ran out of memory > today. I guess it killed a few things before it chanced on X (which killed > pico, which was what had used the remaining 15 megs..) , because logging > in again froze up the machine.. thats no good. > > Rene > > On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > > However, every time I proposed it on this list it has gone down > > > > > in a salvo of flames. And I have enough disk for swap now so I > > > > > don't really care enough any more to fight that kind of resistance > > > > > again. > > > > > > > > I'm all for it going into the main kernel tree, for what its worth. > > > > > > I don't think its the Right answer, but its certain a right > > > answer. Lets see if we can get the Beancounter work Andrey > > > Savochkin has been doing into 2.4. > > > > We probably want both in. The beancounter stuff can prevent > > a lot of DoS emergency situations and the program killer is > > able to get the machine back to work with minimal damage in > > the rare situations that it gets out of hand. > > > > Rik > > -- > > The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network > > of people. That is its real strength. > > -- > > work at: http://www.reseau.nl/ > > home at: http://www.nl.linux.org/~riel/ > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ --
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