Re: Is Euphoria a virus ?
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Daniel wrote:
> As a result of somebody running a rather questionable CGI script that I
> wrote in Eu, my College student server was totally dead for 18 hours. It
> unfortunately happens that this server handles just about everything
> student in the college - everybody's web sites, including countless
> societies, student email, the student linux system, student filespace and
> the system for common username-password access to multiple machines. All
> of these facilities were unavailable during this time.
>
> So what, you might say. Well the script I wrote was a simple test to see
> how many dimensions I could get in a sequence before memory ran
> out. Million-dimensional sequences were no problem, bravo ! But
> unfortunately when given too much to do, and running out of memory, this
> programme has an awful tendency to take other tasks down with it
> (presumably because it takes the memory that they were just about to
> grab). When this task happens to be inetd and the said machine is locked
> away somewhere you have a problem ie dead computer.
Daniel:
I tried duplicating the problem, but all I got was a slight slowing of
xWindows, and eventually, Euphoria exited with an out-of-memory
message and ex.err file when the sequence grew to 20megs. (Understandable,
I only have 28megs on the computer). Everything else continues to run normally.
If you will send the cgi program in question via private e-mail, I will try
again with that.
Regards,
Irv
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