>
> Just for the hell of it, I decided to see what would happen if I
> overloaded my system with cpu intensive programs which would cause the
> system to run out of memory and swap. The system started thrashing, and
> ultimately required a hard boot. I don't think this is healthy. Any user
> could do this.
>
I don't think you have to go to all that trouble. The following code
will hang my system AND a Sun witb SinOs 4.3
main()
{
char x[2048];
main();
}
Eventually the drive that contains the swap file will come on continuously
and there is too little available CPU time to kill the task .....