Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:26:23 -0800 | From | Alfred Perlstein <> | Subject | Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system (fwd) |
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* Jim Bryant <jbryant@ppp-207-193-186-239.kscymo.swbell.net> [000322 14:19] wrote: > In reply: > > This is cross-posted to both linux-kernel and freebsd-hackers, please > > set your replies properly. > > > > > I found the following by accident playing with PVM. If you start the > > > 'gexample' from the examples directory with dimension=10000 and no of > > > tasks=32 on one machine, it becomes almost immediately completely un- > > > usable and begins with heavy swapping. Considering how much memory > > > would be necessary for this computation before starting it would have > > > avoided the trouble. > > well, there are other ways to make a system slow to a crawl.... > > a good preventative measure is to never give shell accounts unless > everyone is accountable.
True.
> > #!/bin/csh > /usr/games/primes 1 4294967295 >&/dev/null&
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> /usr/games/primes 1 4294967295 >&/dev/null& > # etc, ... > # > # [get the idea?]
why are you 'scripting' in csh? eww.
No i don't get the idea, login.conf in FreeBSD is able to limit a user to a maximum amount of processes, I think even cputime limitations work but I haven't tried them.
Yes, and one shouldn't give accounts out to irresponcible/thoughtless people. 'rmuser' is your friend.
-- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
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