Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 14:57:37 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Dennis Glatting <dennis.glatting@software-munitions.com>, freebsd-stable@frebsd.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pgm to kill 4.3 via vm Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105061454580.582-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <20010506044724.A24309@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sun, 6 May 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:37:07PM -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote: > > > > I wrote a trivial program to fill vm and found I can reliably freeze my > > system. It may not work on the first attempt, but certainly within three. > > My command line is: > > > > a.out&;a.out&;a.out&;a.out&;a.out& > > What resource limits have you set? In theory, the code at line 1124 and further in vm_pageout.c should kill of of these processes and allow the system to survive. The only way for the system to die is if this code was broken by a recent change in the system... [but yes, on a production system you'd want to run with sane resource limits] regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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