On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Henry Vermaak <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
Probably the system is just struggling to fill a ridiculously large swap partition ;-) -Flávio -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
