Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 04:47:24 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Dennis Glatting <dennis.glatting@software-munitions.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@frebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pgm to kill 4.3 via vm Message-ID: <20010506044724.A24309@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20010505143035.O613-100000@btw.plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us>; from dennis.glatting@software-munitions.com on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:37:07PM -0700 References: <20010505143035.O613-100000@btw.plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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& > > The goal of my program is simply to see how the system behaves under > memory exhaustion which, as it turns out on two similar systems, the > systems freeze. Specifically, I can switch between consoles but the login > prompts do not respond and the system does not respond on the network. > > I am running 4.3 on a dual processor system. > > Below are some things. First, the program. Second, dmesg. Finally, my > /etc/rc.config. What resource limits have you set? Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE69TnLWry0BWjoQKURAopoAKDA2MwoPVkBSrIu++uKW9j+RRfp2ACfSVOE DZCLZvY8rONfEGDhSai2Wfs= =hL7O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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