On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 08:37:06PM +0530, Sateesh Potturu wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Sometime back I issued a "make -j -l 95.00" of a big application.
> After that I waited for 45 minutes before using power switch. In
> the meantime nothing was working; I could hear only the disk
> churning. I have a 32MB RAM & 128MB swap, kernel 2.2.14.
>
> I don't do such stupid things since then. But in case such
> things happen, what should be done to recover from it.
Set your resource limits low enough so that you don't shoot yourself
in the foot. man ulimit, setrlimit. The OS is supposed to be resistent
to fork bombs, but it doesn't handle low memory situations too well,
according to net rumors.
-Arun
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