Messages in this thread |  | | From | Paul Gortmaker <> | Subject | Dumping /dev/zero to the console | Date | Thu, 18 Jul 1996 01:19:13 +1000 (EST) |
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Here is a neat trick to make your linux box essentially unusable:
On linux console, even as a non-priv user, do a:
% dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k
Now switch to another console (or even X) and try to do anything useful and see how the box behaves. Same result with v1.2.13 and v2.0.7 kernel.
Paul.
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