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Date:      Sat, 8 Feb 1997 13:18:00 +0800 (WST)
From:      Michael Slater <slaterm@excel.tnet.com.au>
To:        Chris Walth <walth@scanners.tec.mn.us>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org, security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems? or denial of service attack?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.970208131704.425A-100000@excel.tnet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970207221333.1664A-100000@scanners.tec.mn.us>

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>   I am running a server currently with FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE.  Yes I know 
> that it is outdated ;)
> 
>   What I have is someone connecting to port 25 and sending a lot of email 
> messages from a dialup port.  I am currently tracing the dialup port.
> 
>   In the process of looking into this problem I noticed many pages of log 
> entries that state the vm_???  has killed a process and also some about 
> out of swap space.
> 
>   Here are a couple of the messages:
> 
> Feb  7 00:07:51 scanners /kernel: Process 26028 killed by vm_fault -- 
> out of swap
> Feb  7 00:07:51 scanners /kernel: swap_pager: out of space
> Feb  7 00:07:52 scanners /kernel: Process 25867 killed by vm_pageout -- 
> out of swap
> Feb  7 00:07:52 scanners /kernel: swap_pager: out of space

It looks like you are out of Swap space...

Michael Slater
slaterm@tnet.com.au



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