Re: 2.1.90 oops to go, drive through

Krzysztof G. Baranowski (kgb@manjak.knm.org.pl)
Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:58:16 +0100 (CET)

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While testing the million monkey theory, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>>I run following program for ten seconds and got a nice set of gpf's.
>>It creates them here, at least (I *hope* my custom egcs optimizations
>>aren't the problem! :-)
>>Hope this helps find some problems - it's similar to crashme, but it
>>directly tests random system calls instead of running random code.
>And so it can destroy all data on your system if it run as root or only
>the user data if it run as normal user (it' s better to run the program as
>nobody! I realizet this only after looking at the source so now is
>running as "andrea" ;-((, hoping to be lucky...).
I have been running it for about 15 minutes as a normal user.
Nothing has happened, no hang or GPF. The kernel is UP 2.1.90
on P166MMX/32MB RAM.

Kris

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