[Python-Dev] Challenge: Please break this! (a.k.a restricted mode revisited) (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Mon Apr 11 02:06:34 EDT 2016

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:42:47AM -0500, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 01:09:19PM +1000, Steven D'Aprano <_ _> steve at pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 08:12:30PM -0400, Jonathan Goble wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Oscar Benjamin > > > <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I haven't looked at your sandbox but for a different approach try > this one: > > > > > > > > L = [None] > > > > L.extend(iter(L)) > > > > > > > > On my Linux machine that doesn't just crash Python. > > > > > > For the record: don't try this if you have unsaved files open on your > > > computer, because you will lose them. When I typed these two lines > > > into the Py3.5 interactive prompt, it completely and totally froze > > > Windows to the point that nothing would respond and I had to resort to > > > the old trick of holding the power button down for five seconds to > > > forcibly shut the computer down. > > > > > > I think this might improve matters: > > > > http://bugs.python.org/issue26351 > > > > although I must admit I don't understand why the entire OS is effected. > > Memory exhaustion? * https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/#cpu-shares-cpu-quota-cpuset-domainname-hostname-ipc-mac-address-mem-limit-memswap-limit-privileged-read-only-restart-stdin-open-tty-user-working-dir * https://github.com/jupyter/dockerspawner/blob/master/systemuser/Dockerfile

I think memory control groups in Linux can be used to limit memory usage. I have mem. c. g. configured and I'll try to find time to experiment with the code above.

> > -- > > Steve

Oleg.

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