on ANY OS, eating up all memory will stop it from running.
Basic fact from life. This is a well known technique for crashing anything
easily
Setup more swap if you need it or look at what your program does. Anyway,
5 million numbers for ~90 megs means you are using 18 bytes per number treated.
This is an easy thing to get :=}
Philippe
Mark Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
> I'm running RedHat 6.0 on a pentium 200 w/ 32 mb of ram and 60 mb of
> swap space. The other day I was writing a program for a school assignment
> that basically makes a list of random numbers and then sorts them. I told
> it to run with a size of 5 million, and then I watched as it used up all
> my swap space (I had xosview open) and my system stopped responding. I
> tried switching out of X to one of the consoles, it wouldn't respond. I
> tried telneting in to the machine, it wouldn't bring up the login prompt.
> Do I have something set up wrong, or is it really this easy crash linux?
> I wasn't logged in as root, and I had just compiled the program so it
> shouldn't have been suid. What am I missing?
>
> -Mark-
>
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