From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 29 6:58:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C719B15629 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 06:58:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA16941; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 07:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 07:21:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Luke Cc: Maxim Sobolev , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: protecting from attacks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message