Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system

From: bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 12:58:08 EST


On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 04:02:40PM +0100, Michael Lampe wrote:
> I found the following by accident playing with PVM. If you start the
> 'gexample' from the examples directory with dimension=10000 and no of
> tasks=32 on one machine, it becomes almost immediately completely un-

(..)
> Any comments ????

A local user can always deny service, this is true of all unixes. Some make
it harder than others however. You can try limiting this with (u)limits.

Regards,

bert hubert.

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