Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:56:35 -0600 (CST) From: Prisoner <spatula@gulf.net> To: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970212085308.4582A-100000@pompano.pcola.gulf.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970212063834.1085A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
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On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote: > narcissus% cat /usr/local/bin/foo > #!/bin/sh > foo > narcissus% > > This slowed my system to a crawl, filled up swap, and caused several > processes to die. The dead processes made X unhappy enough to lock up my > machine. Can anything be done (kernel config settings, etc.) to prevent > stuff like this from happening? Once, in an effort to try to crash my machine (while I was having page fault problems; I wanted another trace), I ran this script: #!/bin/bash spork & spork & spork I managed to get my system load up to 21.19 and fill up my process table, but the machine never crashed. I had to reboot because I couldn't fork a kill process. Nick -- The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. -- Alan Ashley-Pitt Nick Johnson, with volterator. http://www.gulf.net/~spatula/
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