Re: Unix socket local DOS (OOM)

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Tue Nov 23 2010 - 18:25:37 EST


On 24 November 2010 00:11, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le mardi 23 novembre 2010 Ã 23:21 +0100, Vegard Nossum a Ãcrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found this program lying around on my laptop. It kills my box
>> (2.6.35) instantly by consuming a lot of memory (allocated by the
>> kernel, so the process doesn't get killed by the OOM killer). As far
>> as I can tell, the memory isn't being freed when the program exits
>> either. Maybe it will eventually get cleaned up the UNIX socket
>> garbage collector thing, but in that case it doesn't get called
>> quickly enough to save my machine at least.

>
> Hi Vegard
>
> Do you have a patch to correct this problem ?

No, sorry, I didn't look into it.


Vegard
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