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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: 24 Jul 1995 11:21:20 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Don Broderick <broderic@Duquesne University> wrote:
>: Btw., the shortest time between crashes on an SGI has been < 1 hour.
>Just curious... what seems to crash the SGI? What are you using it for?
Their ISDN product.
Anyway, there are zillion more ways to crash IRIX. You can write a
ten-liner, mmap()ing /dev/zero, and starting to randomly access
various pages. It's likely to kill your machine within less than 5
minutes.
You can run the ``fork trap'' script:
#!/bin/sh
$0 &
$0
and the machine will instantly stall.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)