But would it crash the OS?
But would it crash the OS?
Falcon sensor is the most CPU intensive app running in the cluster and produces a constant stream of disk activity (more so than any of our apps).
It hasn't crashed anything yet but it definitely leaves me feeling iffy about running it.
I don't like CrowdStrike at all. I got contacted by our security department because I used curl to download a file from GitHub on my dev box and it prompted a severe enough security warning that it required me to explain my intent. That was the day I learned I guess every command or maybe even keystroke I type is being logged and analyzed.
Windows actually runs a lot of drivers in user-mode, even GPU drivers. largely this is because third-party drivers were responsible for the vast majority of blue screens, but the users would blame Microsoft. which makes sense; Windows crashes so they blame Windows, but I doubt anyone blamed Linux for the kernel panic.
Maybe this is just my ignorance about windows and its ecosystem but it seems most admins this morning were clueless on how to fix that automatically and remotely on n machines and would resort to boot in safe mode and remove a file manually on each single server. This is just insane to think that supposed windows sysadmins / cloudops have no idea how to deploy a fix automatically on that platform.
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083
https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/crowdstrike-freezing-rockyli...
An issue might not be as universal as on windows, because some distros do things differently like not using glibc, or systemd, or whatever. Yet there are some baselines common to the most popular ones.