Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 06:40:52 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970212063834.1085A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970212092753.25299B-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Steve wrote: > On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Alex Merkle wrote: > > > What is the difference between FreeBSD and Linux? > > > > Not crashing almost ever, and crashing semi-frequently - repectively. > > Actually, speaking of crashing, I stumbled across a bad fork-bomb by accident tonight: 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? Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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