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Date:      Wed, 16 May 2001 15:46:13 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net>, john@office.naver.co.id
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My network is dead because of this program :(
Message-ID:  <15106.59157.606928.512401@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <120199664@toto.iv>

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Brian O'Shea <boshea@ricochet.net> types:
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> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:44:32PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> [...]
> > > After going to single user mode, cause I can't kill the offending
> > > program once it is running in multiuser mode (even kill -9 won't
> > > work ...
> 
> Probably because the program is forking and you can't kill it's children
> fast enough.

In which case, setting maxproc for that user in login.conf would cut
the thing off at the kneeds. 0 seems like a good number for this user
:-).

	<mike
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