Re: Any known IP DoS in 2.1.129?

Chip Salzenberg (chip@perlsupport.com)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:18:12 -0500


According to Chip Salzenberg:
> A server I'm responsible for is running 2.1.129 plus the UP Flu patch,
> and yet it keeps dying without log messages.

The culprit has now been proven to be a process that grows to fill VM.

I'd like to know why the recent MM fixes didn't keep the system up,
though. I thought they made things keep working when a process gets
greedy.

-- 
Chip Salzenberg        - a.k.a. -        <chip@perlsupport.com>
      "There -- we made them swerve slightly!"   //MST3K

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