Re: Why is ReGet breaking things?

[Alan Cox]

> This does kill ANY machine. Tested here with AIX and Solaris. System is
> going out of memory, FDs etc. LA skyrockets to absolutely crazy figures (the
> last I did see was 498) and system dies. You're lucky if you're able to
> "killall in.ftpd", 'coz usually any attempt to run any program results in
> "Unable to load interpreter"...
> 
> It's not that kernel dies, the system is simply goes outta resources...

You dont have a user limit set on your ftpd ??