Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 07:06:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 07:06:57 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:11524 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 07:06:57 -0400 Message-ID: <3D09CE45.C2D8152B@aitel.hist.no> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:06:45 +0200 From: Helge Hafting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [no] (X11; U; Linux 2.5.20-dj3 i686) X-Accept-Language: no, en, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Wakeling , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Serverto a Halt (was: remote DoS in Mozilla 1.0) In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthew Wakeling wrote: [...] > However, one circumstance that throwing lots of swap around doesn't > fix is when a process has an insatiable need for memory. In this case, > either the process grows very quickly, or is just plain big. I think the > out-of-memory killer should target big or growing processes. If it doesn't > hit the correct process the first time, it will free up a lot more RAM > than it would otherwise, and it would be likely to get it right the second > time. > A fork bomb would kill everything else in your machine then. The bomb program doesn't grow and is smaller than anythine else - but there's so many of them. So all the other useful programs, including shells, are killed. :-( Helge Hafting - 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/