Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 30 May 1996 08:04:10 -0400 (EDT) | From | Kevin M Bealer <> | Subject | Re: MM bug |
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On Tue, 28 May 1996, Jeff Coy Jr. wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 1996 d-seaman@ukans.edu wrote: > => 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 (clip) > no memory left for grep > > reprinting about every 20 seconds, and although i can switch VTs, the > system is utterly unusable and completely unresponsive. shift-scrllock > shows no swap memory left. the only way out is to hit reset (i waited > about 10 minutes).
ulimit lets you set maximum memory a program can use. If you have 8 MB main and 20 MB swap set a reasonable limit, like 12-18 MB.
Does this help?
> i have 24 megs ram, with a 30 meg swap partition. 486dx2 if that helps > any. > > jeff > --- > Why Linux? source code. POSIX. tcpip. job control. support from the authors. > drivers for most hardware. because one terminal or process is never enough. > forget the other O/Ss, i use Linux- the choice of a GNU generation. >
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