On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 10:31:27AM +0200, Stephane Gourichon wrote:
> On Fri, 26 May 2000, diablero wrote:
> I've just tried once, a few minutes ago on this PC (Mandrake 7.0) under my
> usual X session. It indeed causes denial of service for a few minutes,
> because the machine is busy forking until too many files/processes/memory
> is eaten, then everything goes back to normal.
>
> So, the machine does not crash either actually.
> Even, none of my processes were killed (except the series of bash-gone-mad
> caused by this command line).
I just retried. I have a cooker mandrake. My box crashed.
ulimit -a ; free :
core file size (blocks) 0
data seg size (kbytes) unlimited
file size (blocks) unlimited
max locked memory (kbytes) unlimited
max memory size (kbytes) unlimited
open files 1024
pipe size (512 bytes) 8
stack size (kbytes) 8192
cpu time (seconds) unlimited
max user processes 2048
virtual memory (kbytes) unlimited
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 79180 67184 11996 20208 7328 35552
-/+ buffers/cache: 24304 54876
Swap: 161548 7940 153608
The magic keys worked.
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Thomas Poindessous
EpX asso GNU/Linux de l'Epita
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