In my last mail, the Hurd crash test was started with while true; do ls /usr/include >/dev/null; vmstat --terse --no-header; done
Not everyone has the development packages installed, so /usr/include might be empty and the test will need too much time to crash your computer. Please replace /usr/include by /bin. Here is another test which I have run on the new installation based on gnu-20000301.tar.gz from Marcus Brinkmann (sorry, I mis-spelled your name in the last mail): while true; do echo /bin/* >/dev/null; vminfo 4 | wc; done This test shows how ext2fs.static uses more and more memory. It terminates with a system crash. With 32 MB RAM and no swap partition, I got "Bus error" messages and "(default pager): dropping data_request because of previous paging errors". If you have more memory or swap space, you might also try while true; do echo /bin/* >/dev/null; done or even several of these lines running in the background. This is a very fast method to get the final crash! While running these tests, sometimes the program names in the output from "ps axf" were garbage. Regards, Stefan
