Today, Chris Meadors gleaned this insight:
> I only have one question about this scheme. What about a program that
> leaks very slowly over a long period of time? (Wasn't there even a kernel
> leak like that in the early 2.2.x series?) It will eventually end up
> exausting all memory and surely there'll be another program asking for
> memory faster than it as you head the OOM situation.
>
> I know, I know, this is a rare case and the program doing that should be
> fixed. But it is something to think about. Perhaps there'll be a new
> class of attacks, ones that take weeks or months to pull off.
I don't have ALL the answers man, I'm just a sysadmin... ;)
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