Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 07:29:06 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@telehouse.ch> Cc: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Green/Yellow/Red state for the VM system. Message-ID: <29403.973664946@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Nov 2000 00:39:39 %2B0100." <3A0892BB.4F399708@telehouse.ch>
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In message <3A0892BB.4F399708@telehouse.ch>, Andre Oppermann writes: >> > I don't think this is necessary at all after Matt's and Paul's code >> > being commited. Why? Because the box would not wedge solid or panic >> > anymore. >> >> I wouldn't make such a bold statement.. We find all sorts of interesting >> bugs on a daily basis and I would bet money we'll find another way to >> lockup the system. > >OK, but would the right solution be to simply make more memory >available? I doubt it. A bug is a bug and needs to be fixed not >to be masked. Eventually it would fail just in a different place. You overlook the fact that my change will be an automatic remedy for several classes of DoS. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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