Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:52:45 +0100 | | From | Kurt Garloff <> | | Subject | Re: Simple DoS...out of resources? |
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On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 01:39:24PM -0500, rewt wrote: > It is very easy to crash a system simply by viewing a large file with > editor such as pico. It will eat up all the resources and do some > unpredictible things. In my case I viewed a 100mb file as it was reading > it, it filled up all the swap space which is 48mb. It killed most of the > processes including sendmail, sshd, X, syslog. Does anyone have any idea > how can i protect myself against that kind of DoS? My configuration: > P100, 48mb ram, 48mb swap running on kernel 2.2.2.
help ulimit (bash) man 2 ulimit /usr/src/linux/kernel/sys.c: sys_getrlimit(), sys_setrlimit()
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