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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Ferry Toth <ftoth@telfort.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DOS by unprivileged user
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 12:16:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180422101654.GA26243@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9023506.UBh6vynRGa@delfion>
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On Thu 2018-04-19 21:13:35, Ferry Toth wrote:
> It appears any ordinary user can easily create a DOS on linux.
>
> One sure way to reproduce this is to open gitk on the linux kernel repo
> (SIC) on a machine with 8GB RAM 16 GB swap on a HDD with btrfs and quad core
> + hyperthreading. But I will be easy enough to get the same effect with more
> RAM, other fs etc.
You may want to disable swap.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-22 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-19 19:13 Ferry Toth
2018-04-20 4:46 ` Mike Galbraith
2018-04-20 8:39 ` Ferry Toth
2018-04-20 12:37 ` Mike Galbraith
2018-04-22 10:16 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2018-04-22 17:43 ` vcaputo
2018-04-23 0:27 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-23 7:13 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <4285098.DEWjdbWF2X@delfion>
[not found] ` <1524325275.8078.2.camel@gmx.de>
[not found] ` <6057755.ozdVOybsI6@delfion>
2018-04-23 8:04 ` Mike Galbraith
2018-04-25 14:54 ` Alan Cox
2018-04-25 16:21 ` Mike Galbraith
2018-04-25 16:50 ` Mike Galbraith
2018-04-30 10:00 ` Ferry Toth
2018-04-30 10:35 ` Miguel Ojeda
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