Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 30 May 1996 03:47:55 -0400 (EDT) | From | David Schwartz aka Joel Katz <> | Subject | Re: MM bug |
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Err, it's neither. If you want process resource limits, set them. Lshell does this very nicely automatically upon login.
JK
On Thu, 30 May 1996, Alexey Yakovlev wrote:
> On Wed, 29 May 1996, Regis DUCHESNE wrote: > > > > 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?
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