Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 11:11:22 -0600 From: Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org> To: Yury Yaroshevsky <yk@info.dgtu.donetsk.ua> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.1-STABLE - also freeze :((( [see crashe 3.1-RELEASE ...] Message-ID: <19990306111122.B29044@holly.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <19990306110706.A29044@holly.dyndns.org>; from Chris Costello on Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 11:07:06AM -0600 References: <199903061514.RAA11280@info.dgtu.donetsk.ua> <19990306110706.A29044@holly.dyndns.org>
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On Sat, Mar 6, 1999, Chris Costello put this into my mailbox:
> On Sat, Mar 6, 1999, Yury Yaroshevsky put this into my mailbox:
> > Hi All!
> >
> > 03.03.99 I'm wrote about freeze 3.1-RELEASE after starting this script :
> >
> > -------- cut here -------
> > #! /bin/sh
> >
> > for j in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
> > do
> > echo -n $j
> > nohup sh -c 'while :; do find / -type f |xargs fgrep fticom; done' >/dev/null
> > 2>&1 &
> > echo
> > done
> > ------------------------
> >
> > At next day I'm upgrade my 3.1-R box to 3.1-S, but without visible effects.
> > After 2-3 min perfoming this script, my box can't start any processes.
>
> Take a real good look at what you're doing.
>
> For each number out of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10:
>
> * You spawn one process.
> * It continually spawns more and more processes, sticking them
> into the background.
Whoops! It doesn't stick those into the background... but it
does stick the sh processes into the background while they
continually run find over and over.
>
> This is shooting yourself in the foot. What do you plan on
> doing with that, anyway?
>
> (This will exceed the max process limit very quickly.)
>
> > I'm can't create any connections with my box, also from console.
> >
> > 2.2-STABLE is not freeze and fine work atfer starting crash script about 5-6
> > hours, until I'm kill my script.
> >
> > --
> > Yury V. Yaroshevsky | Donetsk State Technical University
> > YY18-RIPE | (380 622) 356455 yk@dgtu.donetsk.ua
> >
> >
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