Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:16:35 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system |
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Michael Lampe wrote:
> I found the following by accident playing with PVM. If you start the > 'gexample' from the examples directory with dimension=10000 and no of > tasks=32 on one machine, it becomes almost immediately completely un- > usable and begins with heavy swapping.
> One would expect that the misbehaving gexample processes are > killed or maybe other processes started by the same user. > > Actually random processes are killed: I've seen klogd, syslogd, > cron, gpm and inetd disappear.
> Any comments ????
You may want to read the "some questions about linux kernel" and "out of memory" threads on the linux-kernel mailing list archives. Your bug report is an excellent example of what is currently wrong and should be fixed.
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