From: John P. Looney (valen at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Tue 03 Aug 1999 - 13:53:40 IST
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 01:39:05PM +0100, kevin lyda mentioned:
> jplooney at domain compapp.dcu.ie spoke thusly:
> > That's the side Microsoft took in the Windows 3.11 days - if a program
> >crashes your machine, that's not our problem - don't run the program.
> >
> > If your machine is unusable, for anyr reason, what so ever, it's Linux's
> >fault.
>
> really? try this as root:
>
> # dd of=/dev/kmem if=/dev/zero
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=`mount | grep ' / '| awk '{print $1}'`
> # rm /bin/init
> not satisfied with shell killing?
>
> int main() {while(fork());}
There is a difference between killing your machine with a specific
command, designed to kill it, and running netscape or xanim, and it killing
it.
> the oom stuff's annoying, but no os is foolproof. the universe pumps out
> very ingenius fools. as already mentioned there's a lot of discussion on
> linux-kernel about oom (again). there are reasons why your suggested fix
> won't work - i haven't followed the topic so i don't know them any more,
> but pop over and read up on it.
I just want OOM handling that is 10% as good as Windows, FreeBSD or
Solaris. Is that too much to ask for ?
Kate
-- Microsoft - the best reason in the world to drink beer
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