From: cs89rdb@brunel.ac.uk (Roger D Binns) Subject: Die Die Die Date: 21 Dec 1992 12:51:44 GMT
Is it possible to improve the console driver to accept a few more
keystrokes? Try the following line, and see if you can get control
of your machine back. I can't do anything except press the reset
button on the box.
while true ; do (ping 127.0.0.1 &) ; done
It doesn't run out of processes, but does run out of swap. It would
be nice if there was a magical keystroke that could deal with this,
and kill the process with the highest pid for instance. I suggest
ctrl+alt+ins.
I have had similar 'lockups' while using X, for instance while running
xv, and a C compiler. It swaps so much, there is nothing I can do.
Init doesn't even get scheduled so that it can handle the soft
ctrl+alt+delete.
Roger
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