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- From: cs89rdb@brunel.ac.uk (Roger D Binns)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Die Die Die
- Message-ID: <BzM129.Lp@brunel.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 12:51:44 GMT
- Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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- 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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