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Re: [BAD] the whole server down with a red-alert-like attack




On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, alexis bory wrote:

> This morning my litlle server (potato, apache 1.3.9) was down. No
> webservices, no ssh, nothing but ping :(
>
> Jan 24 06:13:54 sfa01 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...

upgrade your kernel.

> Jan 24 06:15:59 sfa01 kernel: VM: killing process cfserver

imho you should lower apache maxclients so it won't bring the machine
down when attacked.

-m-



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