Re: Denial of Service Vulnerability in Sun AnswerBook2

[GOMBAS Gabor <gombasg@INF.ELTE.HU>]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:07:25AM -0500, Dave Monnier wrote:

> When /tmp fills Solaris fails because /tmp is used for swap.  If/when /tmp
> fills, swap space eventually also fills preventing additional procesees
> from being swapped. Eventually system memory will fill causing a failure
> of process spawning alltogether.

... unless you limit the amount of memory /tmp is allowed to use (see
mount_tmpfs(1M), 'size' parameter).

Gabor

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Gabor Gombas                                       Eotvos Lorand University
E-mail: gombasg@inf.elte.hu                        Hungary