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Date:      Sat, 10 Apr 1999 02:05:33 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org>
To:        Dmitry Valdov <dv@dv.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DoS from local users (fwd)
Message-ID:  <19990410020533.A8083@holly.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.990410104158.21940G-100000@xkis.kis.ru>; from Dmitry Valdov on Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 10:42:33AM %2B0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.990410104158.21940G-100000@xkis.kis.ru>

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On Sat, Apr 10, 1999, Dmitry Valdov wrote:
> >    You typically want to set a restriction as to how many
> > processes a user can spawn.  This is done by editing
> > /etc/login.conf and changing the user's login class, see the man
> > page for 'login.conf'.
> > 
> 
> I'm about CPU usage, not about many processes.
> See:
> CPU states: 17.8% user,  0.0% nice, 81.7% system,  0.5% interrupt,  0.0%
> idle 
> on any (tested on P2-45) machine.
> 
> CPU is used by SYSTEM, not by USER. So I can't restrict it with login.conf
> And load average can be up to 20-40 :( 
> 
> Please don't redirect me to -questions, it's a kernel problem, not just
> config. 

   How is it a kernel problem?  It's a forkbomb.  It spawns many
processes.  You can also limit CPU usage with login.conf, I
believe.

> 
> Dmitry.
> 
> 
> 
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