From: Josip Rodin <joy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:07:36 +0200 > I did this in a chrooted bash: > > for i in $(seq 0 100); do (dpkg-query -s python2.5-minimal > /dev/null &); done > > And now the machine went catatonic. :( > > Thankfully the console is still vaguely operational - I can enter my > username to log in, but I can't get the Password prompt to appear. > Magic SysRq still works - if you need any output from it, tell me. Thanks for testing. It seems that instead of getting stuck in the kernel where I thought it would, the process gets stuck elsewhere and also tends to loop allocating memory until all memory in the machine is exhausted and the OOM killer starts to try and kill processes left and right. I'll think about this some more. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
