[FFmpeg-devel] Mailing List Delay

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 08:13:24PM +0100, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
> On 7/14/2021 7:59 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Some spiders where attracted by gitwebs and got entangled in it
> > eventually the OOM killer freed them but in the blaze of holy
> > linux kernel OOM fire grossd and named also where burnt
> 
> Are services not restarted automatically if they're killed?

restarting everything automatically has its own risks. For example
it makes some attacks easier as the attacker has unlimited retries.

Also keep in mind AFAIK noone disabled any distribution default
restarting of services.

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