Re: Frozen machine, no obvious reason

lists (lists@nvi.net.au)
Fri, 28 Nov 1997 10:57:53 +1100 (EST)


It could be someone is doing what is called a teardrop attack ... goto
www.linux.org and get the patch and see if it stops happening

On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 5:43pm up 7 days, 23:43, 7 users, load average: 21.18, 12.64, 8.15
> >
> > so there was no surprise that nothing was working anymore, no getty, no
> > init.
> > I know it's a poor report, I don't have anything more. Do you have
> > any ideas about what was happening?
>
> Looks like someone ran a very very large process or set of them - your
> mail log show anything fun ?
>