Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-12 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
rite seems to do enough other work that a dereference vs. and-255 shouldn't be too bad... Bernd Jendrissek -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7Jciz/FmLrNfLpjMRAmI9AKCm2EYziCzG0qrobFooGLf3kepb/wCbBQf6 nXmD/OZNhGttwQejZ

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-08 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
ow if my symptom (loss of interactivity on heavy writing) is related to swapoff -a causing the same symptom on deeply-swapped boxes. BTW keep in mind my 4-liner is based more on voodoo than on analysis. Bernd Jendrissek -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment:

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-07 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
Does this freezing effect occur on SMP machines too? Oops, had access to one until this morning :( Would an SMP box still have a 'spare' cpu which isn't dirtying pages like crazy, and can therefore do things like updating mouse cursors, etc.? Bernd Jendrissek P.S. here's my

Re: [PATCH] new setprocuid syscall

2001-02-23 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Please CC me - I am not subscribed) BERECZ Szabolcs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Here is a new syscall. With this you can change the owner of a running > procces. Stupid question: why? Not so stupid: why, giving examples? Does the target proces