Re: [TCLUG:15603] Possible attack?

[Kevin Bullock <kbullock@ringworld.org>]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Mike Hicks wrote:

> By `grinding halt', do you mean that your hard drive was going nuts, as
> if the swap was thrashing a lot?

That would indeed be the 'grinding' I was referring to.

> If `VM' stands for Virtual Memory, then this would be consistent with
> what happens when the system runs out of memory -- it tries to kill the
> offending processes.

/me pets Linux's memory management :)

> It could have been an attack, but I bet some program just started a
> memory gusher (as in, bigger than a `leak').

Well, I did have Netscape running at the time. :)

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