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Date:      Fri, 01 Nov 1996 16:16:18 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, greg@uswest.net, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com
Subject:   Re: Another data point in the daily panics... 
Message-ID:  <647.846861378@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Nov 1996 08:58:49 CST." <199611011458.IAA00131@brasil.moneng.mei.com> 

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In message <199611011458.IAA00131@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, Joe Greco writes:
>I found something called "crashme 0.8" in alt.sources, compiled it, and am
>running 50 copies of it...  it seems to be doing a nice job of raising my
>load average slowly (now about 7.00)..

What crashme used to do was to fill the memory of a process with random
bytes, and the jump into a random position.

You generally want to run it in a subdir of /tmp, just in case ;-)

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