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From: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>
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To: grog@lemis.com
Subject: Re: /: file system is full
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I was trying to cause my system to crash. So, I thought that I'd use up all
the available memory.

I wrote a simple 'C' program to malloc a 1 MB chunk, then write into it to 
insure that the paged were allocated

while(1){
   p = (char *) malloc(1024*1024);
   *p = '1';
}

Very quickly, I get back a msg about "/: file system full"

What going on here?