Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 29 May 1996 11:11:46 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Regis DUCHESNE <> | Subject | Re: MM bug |
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> 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
Yes, my system crashes too.
Is this a kernel or a grep problem? (i'm running gnu_grep-2.0 and pre-2.0.4)
If it is a kernel problem, let me add some details: I have a 50Mo swap partition, and before the crash, i heared a big swap activity, and suddenly, my system hung.
PS: an other thing quite strange: just after this crash has happened, i reboot my system, and then i got some "insufficient memory" error messages. I thought i was because the swap was full before the crash and hadn't been cleaned. Is possible or am i totally crazy? After a second reboot, things happened normally.
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