Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:58:12 +0100
Bernd Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
I am no Linux expert, but I think it should be impossible to freeze the
kernel with a wild running "userland" application. I still think it is
somehow hardware related.
It is ridiculously easy to "freeze" linux.
Just start hundreds of threads or use a lot of memory.
yes, you are right, I would not have expected that:
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
p: Pointer;
i: Integer;
begin
i:= 0;
repeat
p:= GetMem(1024);
inc(i);
Caption:= IntToStr(i) + ' KB';
Application.ProcessMessages;
until FALSE;
end;
froze the desktop/console (Ubuntu 8.04) after a couple of minutes. The
same with producing a lot of threads (377 in my case). This took only
seconds.
But I was still able to ping the machine in both cases.
Regards, Bernd.
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