Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> My experience is XP is not as good as it sounds. Suddenly freezes for half
> a minute and then throws all actions together for whatever I did in that
> half a minute.. lik launching 3 words and 5 puttys etc. And illegal memory
> operation is not an impossible event though pretty rare..

Theoritically speaking every system has a threshold of breakdown.
Try this on u're linux box

Do this only if are very bored and have nothing else to do.
Just keep on executing bash prompts one after the other.
i.e. keep typing bash
Sooner or later the system will hang.
There wasn't even any intelligent swapping mechanism which
could save it.

I first tried it on my home pc 
Pentium 100, 32 MB RAM, linux 2.2.14
It wasn't a redhat system when i though of abusing it but
something i installed by hand using loadlin and initrd.
After abt 100 or so instances of bash were into life,
The system was just spinning the hard disk 
There was no swapping.
I waited for around 15 mins, but no response.

Sam result on
my office PC (ssh..... ) :)
Pentium 111, 128 MB RAM, linux 2.4.2

Which goes to prove that all systems are abusable.
Which of course has nothing to so with what u said abt XP.
I don;'t even use windows.
I just use quake1 on DOS. (hmmm...)

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arc_of_descent


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