On Sat, 5 May 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Dennis Glatting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010505 14:38] 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& > > > > The goal of my program is simply to see how the system behaves under > > memory exhaustion which, as it turns out on two similar systems, the > > systems freeze. Specifically, I can switch between consoles but the login > > prompts do not respond and the system does not respond on the network. > > > > I am running 4.3 on a dual processor system. > > > > Below are some things. First, the program. Second, dmesg. Finally, my > > /etc/rc.config. > > > > LOL > > There's no reason to cc two lists. > > You've obviously not bothered to read manpages on setting up system > limits, please do so. > Why is it expected behaviour for a system to freeze, thus requiring a power cycle, regardless of system limit settings? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
