Re: 2.4.x VM problems thread

From: Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 15:55:08 EST


On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I've followed the 2.4.x VM thread stuff. Someone mentioned he will
> wite a test program. Attached program kills all boxen within 1 minute,
> it's not hard to see what it does.
>
> I'm willing to test experimental stuff if needed.
>
> Regards,

Wow a memory-mapped fork bomb! Now what on earth did you expect?
Run it from a user-account with ulimits enabled for slightly less
than the total system resources. Then complain.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).

    I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
    attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
    was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.

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