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Date:      Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:59:28 +0400
From:      "Nickolay A.Kritsky" <nkritsky@internethelp.ru>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: Need help with limits(1)
Message-ID:  <178486777959.20010905125928@internethelp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20010904230634.T7815-100000@achilles.silby.com>
References:  <20010904230634.T7815-100000@achilles.silby.com>

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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.

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