Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 07:21:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Luke <lh@aus.org> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: protecting from attacks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910290720230.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991029094443.lh@aus.org>
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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Luke wrote:
> 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
rmuser is the prefered way to fix it.
If you have abusive users then get rid of them, however if a limited
user is able to take down a box we want to hear about it.
-Alfred
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