On Tue, 26 May 1998 00:47:23 +0200, Andreas Haumer <andreas@xss.co.at> said:
> Hi Alan, hi all,
> after spending days stress-testing my various Linux-machines
> (under Linux-2.0.34pre16) with heavy disk-I/O, network-I/O, high
> CPU-load, forking and flood-pinging, without a single hickup
> since the ISDN problems were solved, I went crazy:
> I remembered the famous "crashme" program, which creates
> and executes lots of illegal code.
> Well, I tried it both as root and as unprivileged user,
> and guess what: Linux-2.0.34pre16 locked solid in both
> cases after just about 10 minutes... :-(
> The DUT was system 3 (if you remember my previous test results),
> a big server machine with 16GB SW-RAID5, Dual 2940UW, 256MB RAM
> AMD K6-233, and I enabled almost every function when configuring
> the test kernel.
Are you able to reproduce this on a non-AMD machine?
--Stephen
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