Hi, On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 10:31:33PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's fairly unlikely that an installer will really cripple your kernel to > the point where you have to power-off. Well, it's fairly likely if you have a program allocating the whole world and even a bit more than that (e.g. by stack trashing which causes a pointer value to be used as the size to allocate: ugh) with a user that forgot to set a memory limit... (ulimit -v?). Then just have the Linux OOM mechanism fail to kill the misbehaving program properly, and that's it.
(this perhaps happened here) Andreas Mohr
