Messages in this thread | | | From | Måns Rullgård <> | Subject | Re: can I bring Linux down by running "renice -20 cpu_intensive_process"? | Date | Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:01:58 +0000 |
| |
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> writes:
>>Subject: can I bring Linux down by running "renice -20 >>cpu_intensive_process"? >> > Depends on what the cpu_intensive_process does. If it tries to allocate > lots of memory, maybe. If it's _just_ CPU (as in `perl -e '1 while 1'`), > you get a chance that you can input some commands on a terminal to kill it. > SCHED_FIFO'ing or SCHED_RR'ing such a process is sudden death of course.
Sysrq+n changes all realtime tasks to normal priority.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@inprovide.com
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |