Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 27 May 1996 12:59:15 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Alfredo Sanjuan <> | Subject | Re: MM bug |
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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...
[alfre@pulp alfre]$ grep nada /dev/zero grep: memory exhausted [alfre@pulp alfre]$ uname -a Linux pulp.ibd.es 1.99.7 #1-pre-2.0 Tue May 21 20:30:46 MET DST 1996 i486
-- Alfredo
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