Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:06:51 -0600 | From | Jeffrey Hundstad <> | Subject | Re: can I bring Linux down by running "renice -20 cpu_intensive_process"? |
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Måns Rullgård wrote:
>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. > > >
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-- Jeffrey Hundstad
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