Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264973AbUIEARK (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 20:17:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265029AbUIEARJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 20:17:09 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:44686 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264973AbUIEARG (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 20:17:06 -0400 Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 17:16:53 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrew Morton Cc: J?rn Engel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] copyfile: generic_sendpage Message-ID: <20040905001653.GA3106@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , J?rn Engel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040904165733.GC8579@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20040904153902.6ac075ea.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040904153902.6ac075ea.akpm@osdl.org> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1029 Lines: 21 On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 03:39:02PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > I don't know how much of a problem this is in practice - there are all > sorts of nasty things which unprivileged apps can do to the system by > overloading filesystems. Although most of them can be killed off by the > sysadmin. > (My infamous bash-shared-mappings stresstest can spend ten or more minutes > within a single write() call, but you have to try hard to do this). This reminds me; I'm having a chicken and egg problem with several stresstests I've written but withheld until fixes for the crashes they trigger are available, but the fixes appear to be hard enough to arrange they need public commentary to find acceptable methods of addressing them. What's the recommended procedure for all this? -- wli - 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/