On Sun, 6 May 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:37:07PM -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote:
> >
> > I wrote a trivial program to fill vm and found I can reliably freeze my
> > system. It may not work on the first attempt, but certainly within three.
> > My command line is:
> >
> > a.out&;a.out&;a.out&;a.out&;a.out&
>
> What resource limits have you set?
In theory, the code at line 1124 and further in vm_pageout.c
should kill of of these processes and allow the system to
survive. The only way for the system to die is if this code
was broken by a recent change in the system...
[but yes, on a production system you'd want to run with sane
resource limits]
regards,
Rik
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