Re: inodes + strobe + unusable system

Mark Harburn (marcus@dappy.com)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:47:08 +0000 (GMT)

Hi,
I was playing around on my system at home the other day, it seemed when
i loaded up say 40-50 copies of strobe, strobe -f'ing a host elswhere on
my network that strobe ate all the inodes on my system. The system was
left for 6 hours to see if it could recover, but kept on saying "no inodes
free - contact linus" or similar (the actual syslog messages was in the
last e-mail regarding inodes i sent). . All process's on the system
where fork'ing or core dumping when i tried them. even when i tried to
reboot it fork'd 6-10 times. A reboot did fix the system, howeve rremotly
their was no access during those six hours.

I was wondering if there's anything to stop this "DOS" like attack on a
system. As i'm still trying to determine what caused it on my system, as
their doesn't seem to be any copies of strobe on it.....

Thank's for your time.

Mark Harburn.

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