Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jul 2003 15:43:43 -0700 (PDT) | From | Sir Ace <> | Subject | Re: Forking shell bombs |
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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, > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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