From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 29 6:45:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ayukawa.aus.org (ayukawa.aus.org [199.166.246.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26985155AD for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 06:45:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lh@aus.org) Received: from PHOENIX.ZER0.NET (lh@ZER0.NET [199.166.246.189]) by ayukawa.aus.org (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA27769; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:45:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3819748D.46722BF6@altavista.net> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:44:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Luke To: Maxim Sobolev Subject: RE: protecting from attacks Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been trying to figure out a sane method of stopping this one: while(1) { fork(); } on a machine with no limits the load went to 290+ I tried fiddling with limits and got it down to making the load 2-3 but the limits are ridiculous. I didn't look in mail archives so sorry if this has been discussed before Luke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message