2009/11/19 Mattias Gaertner <[email protected]>:
> 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.

Hmm, I thought the OOM killer will kick in at some stage and terminate
the process.  Maybe it's not configured into the kernel?

Henry

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