Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Feb 1999 07:02:32 -0800 (PST) | From | Lawrence Walton <> | Subject | Re: inodes + strobe + unusable system |
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Just a idle question where you root when you ran these processes?
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On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Mark Harburn wrote:
> Hi, > I was playing around on my system at home the other day, it seemed when > i loaded up say 40-50 copies of strobe, strobe -f'ing a host elswhere on > my network that strobe ate all the inodes on my system. The system was > left for 6 hours to see if it could recover, but kept on saying "no inodes > free - contact linus" or similar (the actual syslog messages was in the > last e-mail regarding inodes i sent). . All process's on the system > where fork'ing or core dumping when i tried them. even when i tried to > reboot it fork'd 6-10 times. A reboot did fix the system, howeve rremotly > their was no access during those six hours. > > I was wondering if there's anything to stop this "DOS" like attack on a > system. As i'm still trying to determine what caused it on my system, as > their doesn't seem to be any copies of strobe on it..... > > > Thank's for your time. > > Mark Harburn. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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