From: Lumpkin, Buddy (Buddy.Lumpkin@nordstrom.com)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 13:50:56 EST
Hello fellow admins,
In the last year, we have had three occurances of a script in production that
loops and backgrounds processes until no user can fork a new process. Im just
curious how people are solving this these days other than trending and setting
maxuprc. This morning all I could do is echo /proc/* since echo is a shell
builtin, I eventually had to send a break to the box, sync and reboot.
After the fact, im thinking I might of had one shot to fix this by running
exec adb and setting maxuprc manually or doing a pkill ksh. Has anyone tried
this?
Im interested in any cool tricks for handling these situations, I hate putting
parameters in /etc/system that ultimately end up impacting the system at some
later date once people have forgotten about them.
Thanks in advance,
--Buddy
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