Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 28 Nov 1997 01:10:57 +0100 (MET) | | From | Albert Janssen <> | | Subject | Re: Frozen machine, no obvious reason |
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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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