Andy Sy said: > Maybe someone with Cygwin can try it on Windows since iirc, Cygwin > emulates fork().
im right now trying it while typing this message, hmm... no effect it seems.... im still typing..... and still... nothing... > I remember a simple endless malloc() would quickly bring an earlier > Linux setup of mine (kernel version 2.2.x i think) to its knees. > FreeBSD and Win2K chugged along unaffected (they may just keep > everything as vm or swap). with my freeBSD with X, KDE, apache, and those other daemons running around, it didnt took 20 seconds before everything stopped. I Tried limiting the user to 30 processes max, and the system just went slow but didnt stop. uh-oh, my system is startin to slow down... mouse movements are slower... think I need to stop the script before my computer hangs, or else this mail is going nowhere. -- "linux domination is simple, just type rm -rf /mnt/windows" Marc Henry Galang Web references: www.free.net.ph/Members/marc/, Google => "Marc Henry Galang". MD5 Signature = 904a13d379c58ec8ea964bbbf0a5e55c -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
