Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Dec 1996 21:29:28 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: memory crash |
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On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, sheldon newhouse wrote:
> > Just for the hell of it, I decided to see what would happen if I > overloaded my system with cpu intensive programs which would cause the > system to run out of memory and swap. The system started thrashing, and > ultimately required a hard boot. I don't think this is healthy. Any user > could do this. > I don't think you have to go to all that trouble. The following code will hang my system AND a Sun witb SinOs 4.3
main() { char x[2048]; main(); }
Eventually the drive that contains the swap file will come on continuously and there is too little available CPU time to kill the task .....
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