Re: 2.4.x VM problems thread

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've followed the 2.4.x VM thread stuff. Someone mentioned he will
> wite a test program. Attached program kills all boxen within 1 minute,
> it's not hard to see what it does.
> 
> I'm willing to test experimental stuff if needed.
> 
> 	Regards,

Wow a memory-mapped fork bomb! Now what on earth did you expect?
Run it from a user-account with ulimits enabled for slightly less
than the total system resources. Then complain.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).

    I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
    attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
    was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.