From owner-freebsd-security Wed Sep 5 1:59:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from internethelp.ru (wh.internethelp.ru [212.113.112.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5EF37B403 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 01:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from IBMKA (ibmka.internethelp.ru. [192.168.0.6]) by internethelp.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA83450; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:59:27 +0400 (MSD) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:59:28 +0400 From: "Nickolay A.Kritsky" X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.49) Personal Reply-To: "Nickolay A.Kritsky" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <178486777959.20010905125928@internethelp.ru> To: Mike Silbersack Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Need help with limits(1) In-reply-To: <20010904230634.T7815-100000@achilles.silby.com> References: <20010904230634.T7815-100000@achilles.silby.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello Mike, Wednesday, September 05, 2001, 8:09:33 AM, you wrote: MS> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Nickolay A.Kritsky wrote: >> Hi, all. MS> As someone else suggested in this thread, you're probably looking at the MS> wrong problem. Using 100% of CPU should not stall the box. Instead, the MS> problem is probably that your script is eating up all ram and swap. Set MS> memory limits to deal with it, or upgrade. AFAIK low memory deadlock MS> prevention wasn't really perfected until recently. So, upgrading to 4.4 MS> should also help the problem, and you should consider doing it (for many MS> other reasons besides this, of course.) MS> Check into limiting memory consumption first, though. MS> Mike "Silby" Silbersack It is an interesting theory and I will test it in next few days. 2All: Thank you for your helpful replies and suggestions. ;------------------------------------------- ; NKritsky ; SysAdmin InternetHelp.Ru ; http://www.internethelp.ru ; mailto:nkritsky@internethelp.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message