From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CFF0900086 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:20:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (unknown [10.0.50.71]) by fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FBA83EE0AE for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:20:42 +0900 (JST) Received: from smail (m1 [127.0.0.1]) by outgoing.m1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55B5945DE5B for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:20:42 +0900 (JST) Received: from s1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (s1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp [10.0.50.91]) by m1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B32F45DE55 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:20:42 +0900 (JST) Received: from s1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by s1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20BD7E38001 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:20:42 +0900 (JST) Received: from m107.s.css.fujitsu.com (m107.s.css.fujitsu.com [10.240.81.147]) by s1.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB812E08002 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:20:41 +0900 (JST) From: KOSAKI Motohiro Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] forkbomb killer In-Reply-To: References: <20110329101234.54d5d45a.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-Id: <20110414092033.0809.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:20:41 +0900 (JST) Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Minchan Kim Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Andrew Morton , Hiroyuki Kamezawa , Michel Lespinasse , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "rientjes@google.com" , Andrey Vagin , Hugh Dickins , Johannes Weiner , Rik van Riel Hi, Minchan, Kamezawa-san, > >> So whenever user push sysrq, older tasks would be killed and at last, > >> root forkbomb task would be killed. > >> > > > > Maybe good for a single user system and it can send Sysrq. > > But I myself not very excited with this new feature becasuse I need to > > run to push Sysrq .... > > > > Please do as you like, I think the idea itself is interesting. > > But I love some automatic ones. I do other jobs. > > Okay. Thanks for the comment, Kame. > > I hope Andrew or someone gives feedback forkbomb problem itself before > diving into this. May I ask current status of this thread? I'm unhappy if our kernel keep to have forkbomb weakness. ;) Can we consider to take either or both idea? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org