[Planetlab-users] Auto DoS: URGENT

[Steve Muir]

Luis,

i have killed all of your processes on most of the nodes that you listed,
still cleaning up the last few by hand.

cheers,

steve



On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Luis Garces-Erice wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I have distributed a very simple client-server program through a large
> number of planetlab machines The servers apparently have gone down, and
> are not responding any more. The problem is that the clients, because of
> a programming error, are waiting in an infinite loop, and have become
> "fork bombs".
>
> I still have access to the machines, but I cannot do anything:
>
> vsh-2.05$ killall -9 planetlab_udpeer
> vsh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> I hope this has not affected other users on the same machines (through
> virtual machine separation). I attach the list of possibly concerned
> machines.
>
> My user name is eurecom_garces. To all administrators, please kill all
> my processes.
>
> I apologize for this inconvenience, and thank you for your comprehension.
>
>