Re: Is Euphoria a virus ?
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Daniel Johnson wrote:
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> >
> >What needs to change ? Eu or Linux ?
> >
> What needs to change is your willingness to saw on the branch that you
> are standing on, especially if you have company. It was fairly predictable
> that the test you were running would bring the machine to it's knees even
> if it did not crash it. The admins should have put some limits on the
> resources you were allowed to consume, but then a little common sense
> on your part would not have hurt either. Next time you want to stress test
> somebody else's machine, why not warn the admins and request some
> standalone time. It is fairly understandable that they don't want you
> playing any more fun and games. It is too bad that Eu gets besmirched
> along with you. Try apologizing, showing them your code and doing a
> bit of fence mending.
The consensus of opinion on my Linux maillist was:
while it is not at all likely that you could actually crash a Linux server this
way (the worst that should happen is a segfault in your program),
it is entirely possible that the program could have eaten up 99%+ of the
processor's time. That would have pretty much the same result as a crash,
unless someone was there to re-nice or kill your runaway program.
Perhaps the sysadmin should take a look at putting some quotas on things.
Regards,
Irv
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