Re: Fork Bombing Patch

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

On Aug 29, 2007, at 09:49:01, Chris Snook wrote:
> > Like this there are many cases..(actually these cases has already  
> > been discussed On LKML 2 months before in my thread named "fork  
> > bombing
> > attack").  in all these cases this printk helps adminstrator a lot.
>
> What exactly does this patch help the administrator do?  If a box  
> is thrashing, you still have sysrq.  You can also use cpusets and  
> taskset to put your root login session on a dedicated processor,  
> which is getting to be pretty cheap on modern many-core, many- 
> thread systems.  Group scheduling is in the oven, which will allow  
> you to prioritize classes of users in a more general manner, even  
> on UP systems.

I've also set up systems where there is a carefully rate-limited  
SCHED_RR 98 ssh process (NIC interrupt thread is SCHED_RR 99) behind  
an additional set of rate-limiting rules in IPtables.  Basically, no  
matter what somebody is doing to the workstation, even if I let them  
create as many processes as they want or get the box completely into  
a swap storm, I can "ssh -p 222 root@some.box".  Once it connects I  
type in two passwords through a custom PAM plugin and then have my  
login script touch /etc/nologin and send SIGSTOP to every

The resource consumption issue is immediately over and I can go about  
kicking the user and filling out all the icky paperwork.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett



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