Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 28 May 1996 09:45:53 -0500 (CDT) | From | d-seaman@ukans ... | Subject | Re: MM bug |
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On Mon, 27 May 1996, Alfredo Sanjuan wrote:
> On Mon, 27 May 1996, Martin Mares wrote: > > > yet): You can simply crash the system by issuing "grep any_string /dev/zero". > > As the lines in /dev/zero have infinite length, grep tries to allocate still more > > memory for its line buffer until the memory is exhausted. But no out of memory > > message appear and the system gets frozen (interrupts work, but normal processes > > Hmmm....seems to work well for me...
Also works for me. I get a "grep: memory exhausted" error and the system continues like normal.
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