Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:50:51 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.0.34 & crashme |
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Hi,
On Tue, 26 May 1998 00:47:23 +0200, Andreas Haumer <andreas@xss.co.at> said:
> Hi Alan, hi all, > after spending days stress-testing my various Linux-machines > (under Linux-2.0.34pre16) with heavy disk-I/O, network-I/O, high > CPU-load, forking and flood-pinging, without a single hickup > since the ISDN problems were solved, I went crazy: > I remembered the famous "crashme" program, which creates > and executes lots of illegal code.
> Well, I tried it both as root and as unprivileged user, > and guess what: Linux-2.0.34pre16 locked solid in both > cases after just about 10 minutes... :-(
> The DUT was system 3 (if you remember my previous test results), > a big server machine with 16GB SW-RAID5, Dual 2940UW, 256MB RAM > AMD K6-233, and I enabled almost every function when configuring > the test kernel.
Are you able to reproduce this on a non-AMD machine?
--Stephen
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