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Subject: misc/13202: Easy for user to crash system
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>Number:         13202
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Easy for user to crash system
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 17 09:40:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Steven Lawson
>Release:        2.2.8
>Organization:
Alpha Microsystems
>Environment:
>Description:
In an attempt to lure one of our hardware guys from Linux to FreeBSD,
we installed 2.2.8 on a system.  A "make it do something" test he
runs on Linux, and on the SCO Openserver boxes on the production
floor, killed FreeBSD very quickly.  It was quite embarrasing, being
so simple.  It's just a looping batch file which appears to rapidly
eat all of swap, while he insists the other boxes handle it fine.
>How-To-Repeat:
Create a file called "looptest", which contains:
   ls -l
   ./looptest

Make it executable and run it.  System performance drops
and before long it's griping about lack of swap and attempts
to log into the other virtual consoles fail.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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