Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 15:49:25 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Decebal Topala <decebal@mail.md>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: don't fork bomb Message-ID: <199909072149.PAA11621@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 1999 10:14:23 -0000." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909071006260.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred,
Let me apologize in advance for (ab)using your post to reply to Decebal
Topala. 
Alfred Perlstein writes:
    
    On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Decebal Topala wrote:
    
    > Hi 
    > 
    > I used an script to ping all ip addresses in my ocal ip subnet.
    > I was very slow. In order to make this faster i put ping process in 
    > baground. After 15 second system is dumpimg.
    
    can you please tell us the panic message?
    
Decebal
If the goal is to run a ping sweep then there are better tools than ping(1)
for this.  I'd recommend looking at fping in the ports collection.
    for f in `jot 255`
    do
	for g in `jot 255`
	do
	    echo 10.0.$f.$g
	done
    done | /usr/local/sbin/fping 
Much faster, easier to process the output and very much lower resource
utilization than forking for every address. Even with Alfred's
optimization of waiting on 254 process boundaries.
chris
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