OpenEuphoria

Re: Linux sockets

• Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Nov 09, 2002
• 491 views

On  0, irv at take.maxleft.com wrote:
> Martin Stachon wrote:
> > 
> > You shouldn't be able to nuke a Linux box unless you are root or a 
> > hacker 
> >
> 
> Depends on your definition of 'nuke'.
> 
> It's possible to write a loop that will use 99.99% of the CPU cycles, 
> and almost as easy to write a loop that will eat up all memory, 
> plus all virtual memory. Either way, that effectively stops all other 
> processes, including any chance to kill your runaway Euphoria program. 
> Any user can do this, root permission is not required.
> 
> I have had Linux run for 30+ days, until a programming error caused 
> one of the above problems. Only way out is to reboot, which may 
> create disk errors. So be careful.
> 
> Irv
> 

Correct. This happened to me once, when I was expermienting with
simulating
threads. (It has also happened when the X Server was overloaded and
started
to slow, but I could always telnet and kill it that way.)

jbrown


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