Re: Local DoS (was: Strange 'zombie' problem both in 2.4 and 2.6)

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:01:53AM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> I think I may be running into the same (or a similar) issue with a 
> workload that forks heavily (~3500 forks/sec). What can I do to let the 
> system survive this sort of load? 

Hi David,

v2.6.7-mm tree contains a fix for this, adding a rlimit for
pending signals.

Can you describe the problem you are seeing in more detail?


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