Re: 2.4.x VM problems thread

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:12:46 -0300 (BRST)

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:24:37AM +0200, Luigi Genoni wrote:
> > This kind of code would kill any Unix system, i think, not just linux 2.4
> > boxes.
> >
>
> I tried it on 2.2.19-ppc and could kill it with ^C at the prompt, or from
> root if I was already logged in. Trying to iniate connections to ssh didn't
> produce any results after about 30 seconds.
>
> Once it was killed the system was fine.
>
> Haven't tried 2.4 yet...

Under 2.4-ac the system should stay usable.

2.4-linus probably dies because the limit on
the number of processes is dangerously high.

Rik

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