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To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Another data point in the daily panics... 
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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 16:16:18 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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In message <199611011458.IAA00131@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, Joe Greco writes:
>I found something called "crashme 0.8" in alt.sources, compiled it, and am
>running 50 copies of it...  it seems to be doing a nice job of raising my
>load average slowly (now about 7.00)..

What crashme used to do was to fill the memory of a process with random
bytes, and the jump into a random position.

You generally want to run it in a subdir of /tmp, just in case ;-)

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