On Wednesday 10 of February 2010, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 02/10/2010 03:54 PM, Lubos Lunak wrote: > > Which however can mean that not killing this system daemon will be > > traded for DoS-ing the whole system, if the daemon keeps spawning new > > children as soon as the OOM killer frees up resources for them. > > Killing the system daemon *is* a DoS. Maybe, but if there are two such system daemons on the machine, it's only half of the other DoS. And since that system daemon has already been identified as a forkbomb, it's probably already useless anyway and killing the children won't save anything. In which realistic case a system daemon has children that together cause OOM, yet can still be considered working after you kill one or a limited number of those children? > It would stop eg. the database or the web server, which is > generally the main task of systems that run a database or > a web server. -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak@xxxxxxx , l.lunak@xxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>