From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 6 4:47:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-108.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF7137B424 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 04:47:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3A9C967A8C; Sun, 6 May 2001 04:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 04:47:24 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Dennis Glatting Cc: freebsd-stable@frebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pgm to kill 4.3 via vm Message-ID: <20010506044724.A24309@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010505143035.O613-100000@btw.plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010505143035.O613-100000@btw.plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us>; from dennis.glatting@software-munitions.com on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:37:07PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:37:07PM -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote: >=20 > I wrote a trivial program to fill vm and found I can reliably freeze my > system. It may not work on the first attempt, but certainly within three. > My command line is: >=20 > a.out&;a.out&;a.out&;a.out&;a.out& >=20 > The goal of my program is simply to see how the system behaves under > memory exhaustion which, as it turns out on two similar systems, the > systems freeze. Specifically, I can switch between consoles but the login > prompts do not respond and the system does not respond on the network. >=20 > I am running 4.3 on a dual processor system. >=20 > Below are some things. First, the program. Second, dmesg. Finally, my > /etc/rc.config. What resource limits have you set? Kris --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE69TnLWry0BWjoQKURAopoAKDA2MwoPVkBSrIu++uKW9j+RRfp2ACfSVOE DZCLZvY8rONfEGDhSai2Wfs= =hL7O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message