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From: Andrea Righi <righiandr@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 09:50:03 +0200 (MEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <464D5AA4.8080900@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464C9D82.60105@redhat.com>

Rik van Riel wrote:
> Andrea Righi wrote:
>> I'm looking for a way to keep track of the processes that fail to
>> allocate new
>> virtual memory. What do you think about the following approach
>> (untested)?
>
> Looks like an easy way for users to spam syslogd over and
> over and over again.
>
> At the very least, shouldn't this be dependant on print_fatal_signals?
>

Anyway, with print-fatal-signals enabled a user could spam syslogd too, simply
with a (char *)0 = 0 program, but we could always identify the spam attempts
logging the process uid...

In any case, I agree, it should depend on that patch...

What about adding a simple msleep_interruptible(SOME_MSECS) at the end of
log_vm_enomem() or, at least, a might_sleep() to limit the potential spam/second
rate?

-Andrea

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-18  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-17 16:24 Andrea Righi
2007-05-17 18:22 ` Rik van Riel
2007-05-18  6:28   ` signals logged / " Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-18 11:47     ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-19  7:46       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-19  9:35         ` Andrea Righi
2007-05-19 10:06           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-19 10:16             ` Andrea Righi
2007-05-20  0:14         ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-05-20  3:55           ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-20 11:21             ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-05-20 16:08               ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-20 16:12                 ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-05-20 20:38                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-20 20:55                     ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-05-20 21:14                       ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-20 21:20                         ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-05-20 21:23                           ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-05-20 22:24                           ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-20 22:22                             ` Jeff Dike
2007-05-21 10:45                         ` Andrea Righi
2007-05-21 11:04                           ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-05-21 12:30                             ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-21 12:47                               ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-05-21 13:58                                 ` Andrea Righi
2007-05-21 18:59                                   ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-05-21 22:15                                     ` Andrea Righi
2007-05-23 18:00                                 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-23 18:45                                   ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-06-10 19:53                                     ` Folkert van Heusden
2007-06-10 20:06                                       ` Jiri Kosina
2007-06-10 20:37                                         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-18  7:50   ` Andrea Righi [this message]
2007-05-18  9:16     ` Robin Holt
2007-05-18 15:55       ` Andrea Righi
2007-05-18 16:05         ` Andrea Righi
2007-05-20  0:15     ` Folkert van Heusden

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