Bug#628690: openssh-server inherits oom_adj -17 upon start under specific conditions, causing DoS potential for oom_killer

could get this merged into master (obv rename the vars if you want). Attached is the appropriate patch file as of openssh-5.5p1 Cal On 30/05/2011 21:56, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: Just did some testing.. root@vicky:~# cat /var/log/auth.log | grep Set May 30 21:41:05 vicky sshd

Bug#628690: Acknowledgement (openssh-server inherits oom_adj -17 upon start under specific conditions, causing DoS potential for oom_killer)

Here is the latest conversation with openssh devs, which confirms this definitely falls within the remit of debian or kernel-mm. On 31/05/2011 13:25, Gert Doering wrote: Hi, On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:11:13PM +0100, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: Could you point out the line

Bug#628718: linux-2.6: Swap on encrypted volume slows system to a crawl (not explicable by encryption overhead)

+1 on this problem, im experiencing the same thing :( Server swaps out, and I get this for 10+ minutes.. top - 22:44:01 up 22:52, 10 users, load average: 20.62, 12.75, 6.58 Tasks: 394 total, 2 running, 392 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 24.7%us, 27.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 31.9%wa,