[TAG] Which process wrote that line into syslog?

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:39:18PM +0300, Ville wrote:
> 
> Trying to make f-prot run out of memory _on purpose_ turns out to be
> surprisingly difficult. _Without_ purpose, it *really* has not been a
> problem in the past. Larger .ZIPs have caused it to wake up kernel oom
> rambo, which in turn has killed a lot of innocent daemons. Now, no matter
> what I try, I can't seem to get it run oom.

Well, if they have somehow managed to handle the "huge ZIP" problem,
great for them - but, just in case, see the mime-encoded chunk below
(it's a 238-byte long result of double-bzipping 1 *terabyte* of nulls.)
That tends to break most AV filters, so I'm not sending it as an
attachment; you can always decode it and send it to yourself, though. :)

You could also try setting 'ulimit' to squeeze f-prot down to a small
footprint and see what that does.

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--vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="1TB_of_nulls.bz2.bz2"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

QlpoOTFBWSZTWcaRHXYC7Jt//2LxQgjDAWCkcQIIMMBAQABEEUSAYCEACFAAAAC0ADABcABg
NGQ0GEA0A00AAJqqoADQDQA0AYj0JoYDRkNBhANANNAAYFKIWwUohYilELZ65SiFyaZSiF5b
m6UohYpSiF+ylELblKIXjm7tXMUohYYSlELeKUQtHEUohaJSiFkx5ceEpRC9SlELNzylEL6K
UQvwpRC9ilELKUohfZSiFl4ZSiF8ZsMxSiF8ylELRrwlKIWfPyylELjlKIWnThKUQsmnzKUQ
tWjXKUQtf9KUQtf+LuSKcKEhjSI67A==

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