Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:58:16 +0100 (CET) | From | "Krzysztof G. Baranowski" <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.90 oops to go, drive through |
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While testing the million monkey theory, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >>I run following program for ten seconds and got a nice set of gpf's. >>It creates them here, at least (I *hope* my custom egcs optimizations >>aren't the problem! :-) >>Hope this helps find some problems - it's similar to crashme, but it >>directly tests random system calls instead of running random code. >And so it can destroy all data on your system if it run as root or only >the user data if it run as normal user (it' s better to run the program as >nobody! I realizet this only after looking at the source so now is >running as "andrea" ;-((, hoping to be lucky...). I have been running it for about 15 minutes as a normal user. Nothing has happened, no hang or GPF. The kernel is UP 2.1.90 on P166MMX/32MB RAM.
Kris -- Krzysztof G. Baranowski - President of the Harmless Manyacs' Club "Smith & Wesson - The original point and click interface..." http://www.knm.org.pl/ <prezes@manjak.knm.org.pl>
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