Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:02:40 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Kernel hangs and/or becomes unstable |
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Hi,
You just said:
> BUG 1: playing DOOM causes the system to hang.
:) well, don't play DOOM then... Seriously though, the data you provide is far from being sufficient to even start debugging it.
> BUG 2: ("FORK"ING CONTINUOUSLY MAKES THE SYSTEM UNSTABLE)
Naturally, and it is not a bug. Use "man setrlimit" command to learn about resource limits that can be set under (almost) any flavour of UNIX. The command-line interface to those things is bash's builtin command called "ulimit". Just learn how to use it (try ulimit -aH to see the current values and then ulimit -j to get the list of options) and you will be able to set it to run out of resources much sooner so that you can still shutdown gracefully.
Regards, ------ Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com Escalations Research Group | tel: +44-(0)1923-813796 Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | http://www.ocston.org/~tigran
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