Re: 2.4.4 sluggish under fork load

From: J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Date: Sat Apr 28 2001 - 09:16:19 EST

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On 04.28 Peter Osterlund wrote:
>
> Another thing is that the bash loop "while true ; do /bin/true ; done" is
> not possible to interrupt with ctrl-c.
>

Just tried that under 2.4.4 on two terminals at the same time and the system
even noticed it. Both cpus were running at about 45%user+55%sys, and was
able to use balsa to read mail (disk access) and both loops stopped
immediatley under Ctrl-C.

-- J.A. Magallon # Let the source mailto:jamagallon@able.es # be with you, Luke...

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