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SubjectRe: Frozen machine, no obvious reason
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 5:43pm up 7 days, 23:43, 7 users, load average: 21.18, 12.64, 8.15
> >
> > so there was no surprise that nothing was working anymore, no getty, no
> > init.
> > I know it's a poor report, I don't have anything more. Do you have
> > any ideas about what was happening?
>
> Looks like someone ran a very very large process or set of them - your
> mail log show anything fun ?

A little sweet fork-bombing ?

(Oh,btw, why is fork-bombing and memory-hogging not disabled in the
kernel-environment ?)

bye,
Albert.

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