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From: Pedro Venda <pjvenda@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Cc: Christoph Gysin <cgysin@×××.ch>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] grsec Resource logging
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:08:18
Message-Id: 200508141201.17654.pjvenda@arrakis.dhis.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-security] grsec Resource logging by Christoph Gysin
1 On Sunday 14 August 2005 10:53, Christoph Gysin wrote:
2 > I'm playing around with grsecurity. Now I get lots of messages like this:
3 >
4 > grsec: denied resource overstep by requesting 7499776 for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
5 > against limit 32768 for /usr/sbin/ntpd[ntpd:8525] uid/euid:123/123
6 > gid/egid:123/123, parent /sbin/init[init:1] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0
7 >
8 > As far as I understand, ntpd is trying to allocate more memory than it is
9 > allowed due to resource limits. The limit seems to be 32M while ntpd tries
10 > to allocate 7G (!) of RAM?
11
12 the same happens to me. I haven't given it much importance because ntpd works
13 ok even with grsec interference.
14
15 > What is wrong here?
16
17 still I'd also like to clarify this.
18
19 regards,
20 pedro venda.
21 --
22
23 Pedro João Lopes Venda
24 email: pjvenda < at > arrakis.dhis.org
25 http://arrakis.dhis.org

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Re: [gentoo-security] grsec Resource logging Marc Ballarin <Ballarin.Marc@×××.de>