Locally Exhausting Resources
¨Filling up the
process table
–Achieved by forking
recursively
–Prevents other users
from running new processes
¨Filling up the file
system
–By continuously
writing lots of data to file system
–Prevents other users
from writing to files
–May causing system to
crash
¨Sending outbound
traffic that fills up the network link
–By running a program that constantly sends bogus network traffic
–Consumes cpu cycles
and network bandwidth