Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:06:45 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Serverto a Halt (was: remote DoS in Mozilla 1.0) |
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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. :-(
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