Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:10:51 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: objrmap-core-1 (rmap removal for file mappings to avoid 4:4 in <=16G machines) |
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* Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> > could you just try test-mmap2.c on such a box, and hit swap?
> Unless it crashes the machine I don't care, it's totally wrong in my > opinion to hurt everything useful to save cpu while running an > exploit. there are easier ways to waste cpu (rewrite the exploit with > truncate please!!!)
i'm not sure i follow. "truncate being slow" is not the same order of magnitude of a problem as "the VM being incapable of getting work done".
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