This one time, at band camp, Steve Langasek said: > severity 309014 important > thanks > > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:50:27PM +0200, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote: > > I have a Dual AMD Athlon 1800+ (MP) and running the commands above > > wouldn't crash atd. > > > I also vote to downgrade the severity to important, the bug causes not a > > unusable package. > > Running this on my HT P4 makes my laptop's fan unhappy, but it does not seem > to trigger a crash. > > IIRC DoS bugs are normally important anyway (not grave), and this one > seems particularly difficult to exploit, so I'm going to go ahead and > downgrade it.
FWIW, I can't reproduce on either an amd64 single CPU or a p4 dual ht cpu system. It does drive the load up interestingly, and could for the OP have caused the oom killer to kck in and kill atd, but that wouldn't be a bug in atd. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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