break the machine/load average

Russell Berry (rberry@albany.net)
Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:30:15 -0400


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Here's something neat...

russ@interloper:~$ uptime
12:21am up 51 min, 5 users, load average: 116.42, 71.31, 40.16

and it didn't die!!!

I did this with a little program I call killme.c:

---russ

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main()
{
int pid;
do{ for(;;)
pid=vfork();
}while(1);
}

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