Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed): On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 10:13:47PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: (a while ago I gave on this list, or perhaps hackers-il, an example of a nasty

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-16 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:56:01AM +0300, guy keren wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Sorry for not reading it (apparently wasn't here, maybe hackers-il, but google doesn't find it), but what I usually do is kill -STOP all of them, and only then kill

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:01:07PM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: the system gets completely stuck for a few seconds. Increasing the number increases the stuck time. Isn't a unix suppossed to protect users from such DOS attacks in some way (just checked, executing it from another user has

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote about Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed): Another question: fork bombs. I think this was much worse a few years ago but still, when I do:: perl -e 'for $i (1..15) { fork

Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 10:13:47PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote about Re: SOLVED: Slow Linux response during disk operations (was: Testing on various computers needed): Another question: fork bombs. I think this was much worse a few years ago