Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263718AbUFBRqA (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:46:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263735AbUFBRqA (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:46:00 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:40923 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263718AbUFBRp6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:45:58 -0400 Message-Id: <200406021745.i52HjmAT013644@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: Tim Connors Cc: FabF , Bernd Eckenfels , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: why swap at all? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:50:42 +1000." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1086114982.2278.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200406011902.i51J2mZ3016721@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1353046712P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:45:48 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1570 Lines: 39 --==_Exmh_1353046712P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:50:42 +1000, Tim Connors said: > I do often get frustrated that the DoS card is brought up to kill a > potentially useful solution. I think there should be a flag in KConfig > saying "This machine will be a server"/"This machine will be mostly a > single user desktop machine". In the latter, you can enable all these > vm/etc heuristics that will help out mozilla/X/your favourite > bloat-ware, but potentially enable a DoS attack, and in the former, > you stay conservative. And with that, you've worried about whether it's a potential DoS or not. I didn't bring it up to "kill" it - I brought it up to start a discussion, because I felt that including that sort of feature without at least thinking about the DoS issues was a bad idea. Shipping it with a Kconfig or sysctl flag, or using the capabilities framework, or any other similar "allow the sysadmin to control it" feature is a different matter entirely... --==_Exmh_1353046712P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFAvhJMcC3lWbTT17ARAll2AJ9e+Ps+APunNs2JCWiqd7ivvvrGsACfdLv7 HHLd/T39TS0I6Qu3KwEyyRI= =BhJS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1353046712P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/