From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 25 09:36:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA23205 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:36:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from ravenock.cybercity.dk (disn40.cybercity.dk [194.16.57.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA23050 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:36:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ravenock.cybercity.dk (8.8.2/8.7.3) id SAA10053; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 18:38:49 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199611251738.SAA10053@ravenock.cybercity.dk> Subject: Re: Hang your machine with ScrollLock To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 18:38:38 +0100 (MET) From: "Soren Schmidt" Cc: mtaylor@cybernet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199611251650.KAA15011@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Nov 25, 96 10:50:05 am From: sos@FreeBSD.org Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Joe Greco who wrote: > > > Here's a good one I did the other day (by accident): > > > > I have a cron job that runs every two minutes to display the > > uptime on the console (to make sure that it keeps scrolling) > > on the company's name server (uptime > /dev/console). > > > > I put the console in scroll-lock mode by accident. About > > 0.5 hours later, name resolving was dead. I went to the > > name server machine and saw about 20 or so of these 'uptime' > > processes running, waiting to output to the console. So many > > of these were running (along with CRON processes and sh processes) > > that the system could not create more processes (as the syslog > > told me). > > > > As soon as I hit the scroll-lock key, everything was fine- > > all of the uptime processes completed, and name serving > > went on as usual. I belive this to be fixed in what was 2.2-current long ago... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..