On Monday 14 June 2004 15:37, Orlando Andico wrote: > It's the only DB server I've used that can *crash* a box (both Linux > and FreeBSD in my experience). Grantd those were pathological > cases (some full-table scan at the same time lots of inserts/updates) > but still.. you don't see Oracle doing that.
was it running as root? how can a user process crash a box? (well, i've seen freebsd die when the free space on the root partition got low, linux seems to perform better this way. i've also seen linux crash when the root partition got to 0% free space, but it actually had to get to 0% free space, while i've seen freebsd die when it still had 10-15% free. but that gets away from my question. apart from filling up the root partition, how else can a user process crash a linux or freebsd box? OOM without the OOM killer patch (just guessing here, i don't actually get to OOM much, so i don't know what happens at that extreme)? use up all RAM and virtual memory? tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes. -- 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
